ROMEO AND JULIET LESSON PLAN: PROCEDURES

Lesson plan

TARGET GROUP

This unit is aimed at students of 1st year of Bachillerato. Students of this year are supposed to have achieved an upper intermediate level. Students work individually, in pairs and in groups.


AIMS

• To get acquainted with Shakespeare’s times.
• To get familiarised with Shakesperare’s plays.
• To improve students’ writing skills.
• To write an ending for act 5, scene 3 in Romeo and Juliet.
• To analyse characters and their psychological insights.
• To be aware of the elements present in dialogues and drama.


CONTENTS

• Shakespeare’s times.
• Study of Shakespeare’s plays.
• Psychological analysis of characters.
• Dychotomy love vs violence.
• Drama dialogues.


SESSIONS

The unit is intended for 8 sessions of 55 minutes each.


MATERIALS

• The play Romeo and Juliet. This is a graded reading. The play is mainly kept but there are aspects related to language that are modified for students to understand better.
• The movie Shakespeare in Love.
• The web page www.sparknotes.com
• Different handouts for the activities.



METHODOLOGY

The purpose of this unit is to make students think about the way elements in a literary work are interwaved. They have to deal with elements present in the play such as love and violence and the way they affect characters’ behaviour. After analysing this in deep, they are given the opportunity to create their own piece of writing taking into account all the elements in the play such as characters’ roles and feelings, setting and symbols in order to modify them. The purpose of these activities is the representation of this play at the end of the term.