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Exploring Themes in Romeo and Juliet: Juxtaposition of Hate, Power, and Death

This learning task focuses on understanding the profound themes in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," such as hate, violence, fear, power, masculinity, and death. Students are encouraged to construct a mini plot line based on these themes and explore how juxtaposition affects their interpretation. Important activities include summarizing key plot points, analyzing main characters, and identifying specific scenes for deeper study. Engaging with the fight scene using mime will further enhance understanding of how these themes and presentation devices are interwoven in the play.

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Exploring Themes in Romeo and Juliet: Juxtaposition of Hate, Power, and Death

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  1. Home Learning task: See at the end of the class! Shakespearian Task LO: to begin to understand the purpose of the play that we will be studying, via the themes within it.

  2. Themes • Hate • Violence • Fear • Power • Control • Masculinity • Anger • Temper • Death • What type of play would these themes be integrated into? • Construct your own mini plot line from these themes. • (3 minutes!) What does JUXTAPOSITION mean?

  3. If we had to juxtapose these themes, what would we do to them? • Hate • Violence • Fear • Power • Control • Masculinity • Anger • Temper • Death How would these themes form the basis for a play?

  4. If we had to juxtapose these themes, what would we do to them? • Hate • Violence • Fear • Power • Control • Masculinity • Anger • Temper • Death How would these themes form the basis for a play?

  5. Home Learning Task • Research what happens in the play, Romeo and Juliet. • Summarise your research into, a minimum of, 8 lines. • Include: • who the main characters are; • how juxtaposition links into the play; • What scene you would like to study and why.

  6. Romeo and Juliet LO: to understand what happens in the play, and how juxtaposition could be integrated throughout.

  7. Presentation of a scene in a film LO: to understand the devices used by film makers to present a scene in a film

  8. Stage props • Visual humour • Actions and reactions • Juxtaposition • Monologues and asides • soliloquies

  9. Romeo and Juliet LO: to understand how juxtaposition is revealed in the play- especially through one specific scene.

  10. To use mime to understand the presentation of the fight scene

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