West Side Story Packet (Romeo and Juliet Comparison)

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Grade Levels

9th - 12th

Subjects

English Language Arts, Drama, Dance

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Worksheets, Movie Guides

Standards

CCSSRL.9-10.1

CCSSRL.9-10.2

CCSSRL.9-10.3

CCSSRL.9-10.6

CCSSRL.9-10.7

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10 pages

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- This packet is updated-

This is a packet for the movie West Side Story. This packet addresses themes across Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story.

Packet includes section for students to discuss the theme of the works, discussion questions for the film, a character comparison chart, and a New York Times article on the gentrification of San Juan Hill which inspired the Broadway musical West Side Story.

Discussion question topics include: territorial attitudes, characterization, symbolism, use of film techniques to establish connections and tropes, parallels between the film and Shakespeare's play, and the American Dream.

Discussion questions range across varying levels of depth of knowledge.

The document is also written using the font Lexend Deca for ease of reading for students in general, as well as those with dyslexia.

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Total Pages

10 pages

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N/A

Teaching Duration

3 days

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CCSSRL.9-10.1

Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

CCSSRL.9-10.2

Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

CCSSRL.9-10.3

Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.

CCSSRL.9-10.6

Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.

CCSSRL.9-10.7

Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).

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