Romeo and Juliet COMPLETE UNIT | Workbooks & Worksheets | Colorful & Editable!!

This "star-crossed" curriculum will inspire your students to generate stellar insights about William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The complete unit has everything you'll need to facilitate profoundly engaging classes on Romeo and Juliet. The lesson plans are brimming with student-centered materials which will inspire a life-long love of Shakespeare!

The beautiful workbooks will enable you to capture and hold the attention of modern-day students. The higher-order questions will help you pivot from reading comprehension to interpretive analysis and critical thinking. The figurative language exercises will deepen students' understanding of a wide variety of literary devices. The daily quick-writes and final writing assignment will cultivate skills in analytical writing.

Best of all, every page in this teacher-friendly unit includes a highly detailed answer key! What distinguishes the answer keys is that they're filled with interpretive insights from leading Shakespeare scholars at universities like Harvard, Brown, Oxford, and Cambridge. You'll have your students reading like a professor!

Last but not least, every page in this unit is also fully editable. You'll be able to customize the materials to suit the skill levels of your students — year after year!

Did you know that Romeo and Juliet write a sonnet together when they first meet? Or that Shakespeare uses this play to explore the boundaries between comedy and tragedy? Or that the play illustrates how gender norms can constrain the freedom of men and women alike — often with tragic consequences? Those are a few of the hundreds of questions which this unit will have your students discussing and debating in a lively manner....

Here's what you'll find in this editable 180-page unit:

• Introduction to Shakespeare's World: The 30-page introduction includes five handouts covering topics like Shakespeare's biography, the language of Renaissance England, the construction of the Globe Theater, how to recognize iambic pentameter, and more. Every handout is followed by a comprehension check, practice exercise, or quiz. You could spend up to a week with the introductory handouts — or skip them altogether. Answer keys included. (30 pages)

• DAILY WORKSHEETS on Romeo & Juliet: The 60-page workbook features colorful and highly engaging worksheets on EVERY scene in Romeo and Juliet. Each worksheet is divided into sections which invite students to engage with the text in a variety of different ways:

• The Passage Analysis section invites students to analyze one or two key passages from each scene.
• The Evidence Hunt section challenges students to answer an interpretive question by finding the best textual evidence to support their answer.
• The Comparing Quotations section invites students to make connections between quotations from different scenes in the play.
• The Discussion Questions section features three higher-order questions designed to foster lively discussions and interpretive debates among students.
• The Quick Write section challenges students to compose short arguments that require the support of carefully selected textual evidence — leading to keen interpretive insights!

The workbook is guaranteed to foster skills in close reading, thoughtful analysis, and lively discussion. It will have your students feeling genuinely excited to study Shakespeare every day! (60 pages)

• ANSWER KEY: The 60-page answer key to the workbook provides detailed answers to the passage analysis, evidence hunt, and comparing quotations sections. The answer key is informed by the best books and articles written by leading Shakespeare scholars: Marjorie Garber (Harvard), Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard), Emma Smith (Oxford), Coppélia Kahn (Brown), Catherine Belsey (Cambridge), Susan Snyder (Swarthmore), David Bevington (Chicago), Dympna Callaghan (Syracuse), and many others. (60 pages)

• Figurative Language Quiz: The quiz challenges students to identify 7 types of figurative language — metaphor, simile, paradox, oxymoron, personification, apostrophe, and hyperbole — used across 40 quotations from Romeo and Juliet. Also included is a glossary with definitions of the types of figurative language as well as examples of how they're used in the early scenes of Shakespeare's play — so you can begin reviewing the types of figurative language with students before they tackle the quiz. Answer key included. (6 pages)

• Analytical Writing Assignment: Challenge students to take their interpretations one step further by writing an analytical paper on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Let students choose from one of 5 thought-provoking sample topics — or invite them to develop a topic of their own. Writing schedule, outline template, and rubric included. (8 pages)

• Pacing Guide: The pacing guide provides suggestions about which scenes to assign for homework to make sure the nightly workload is manageable while each class session is maximally productive. (2 pages)

This unit is hot off the presses! It was inspired by the most recent academic scholarship on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. While the visually beautiful worksheets make it an engaging choice for any 9th-grade English class, the unit was also designed to have enough rigor for Honors and Pre-AP courses.

The entire unit will come to you in two separate formats: Word docs *and* PDFs. Because the Word docs are fully editable, you'll be able to customize them to suit your teaching style or the skill levels of your students — year after year. If you don't have Word, you'll still be able to access the PDF version — which is easy to navigate and quick to print.

Rigorous Resources is your one-stop shop for top-quality units on canonical literary texts by diverse authors. Inspire students to arrive at a whole new depth of insight while falling in love with Shakespeare!

Finally, from one full-time teacher to another: thank you! Thank you for everything you do in the classroom everyday! Thank you for kindling a love of literature in modern-day teenagers. As Romeo says of Juliet, you are the brilliant blaze that "doth teach the torches to burn bright"!

Happy teaching,

Adam Jernigan, Ph.D.

adamjernigan@gmail.com

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