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Week’s Assignments
May 14 - 18, 2012
This page is updated Monday mornings. If you have bookmarked it, you may need to Refresh the page the next time you return. Assignments are due at the start of the next class, unless indicated otherwise.
Monday – Read about the manner in which Juliet tries to put the friar’s “simple plan” into actual use, despite her many doubts that it will work as planned. Then see how her family reacts the next morning, the day of her marriage to Paris. Finish Act IV with Scenes iii – v (pp. 558 – 563) and answer the nine questions on Scenes iii – v and the four Review questions, all on p. 11 of your handout. (+ +)
Tuesday –Review the events of Act IV by being familiar with pp. 10 – 11 of your handout, ready for an open-notes, triple-weight test. Write Juliet’s obituary, as printed in the Verona Tribune. Include name, age, birthplace, cause of death, and survivors’ names. (+) Your next reading assignment will be due Thursday: Act V, Scenes i – ii (pp. 563 – 566) and questions #1 – 10 on pp. 11 – 12 of tour handout. (+ +)
Wednesday – The play shifts its setting to Mantua where Romeo is about to receive his first news of events in Verona. Read Act V, Scenes i – ii (pp. 563 – 566) and answer questions #1 – 10 on pp. 11 – 12 of tour handout. (+ +)
Thursday - Discover what the friar finds at the Capulet tomb as you read the first half of Act V, Scene iii (pp. 567 – 571). Answer questions #1 – 8 on p. 12 of your handout. (+)
Friday - Now that Juliet has survived the “like-death” potion, discover how the final conflicts are resolved as you finish Act V, iii (pp. 572 – 576). Answer questions #9 – 18 on pp. 12 – 13 of your handout. (+ +) (You may skip #15.) Also answer Review questions A – C. (+) Your Act V test will include the vocabulary words from p. 16, but you won’t be allowed to refer to p. 16 when you take the test, only pp. 11 – 15.
Revised 05/14/2012
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