sábado, 14 de abril de 2007

ROMEO AND JULIET LESSON PLAN: SESSION 1

Session one

In the first session students watch some fragments of the movie Shakespeare in Love. These fragments correspond to the Elizabethan theater, to the Globe, the performance of some scenes, The purpose for watching this movie is that they get acquainted with Shakespeare’s times.

While they are watching the movie they have to pay attention to the following aspects:


• Sets and settings: description of the places showed in the movie.
• Study of non-verbal codes: dress, gestures, facial expressions...
• Representation: gender, nationality, heroes, heroins, villains, historical period.
• Narrative issues: use of characters and action in the narrative, audience engagement and identification.
• Values and ideology – who is being represented and in what way?
• Similarities in plot between the movie and the play

They have to answer all these questions as homework. For the development of this, they have to create a poster and hang it on the wall.

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