Romeo and Juliet Pyramid

C-Level Tasks

1. 10 points - Draw a comic strip that depicts your favorite scene of the play.
2. 20 points - Create flashcards AND a crossword puzzle for fifteen of the most difficult vocabulary words in the play.
3. 20 points - With a partner, act out an entire scene of the play.  Paraphrase the text, use props and costumes, and perform your scene for the class without reading from a script.
4. 10 points - Write a Shakespearean sonnet that Romeo would have written to Juliet, or that Juliet would have written to Romeo.  Follow the standard patterns of rhythm and rhyme.
5. 20 points - Memorize a 10-line monologue (speech) and perform it for the class.
6. 10 points - Create a review game for one act that the class can play.
7. 20 points - Write and perform a song/rap about a character or situation in the play.
8. 20 points - Answer all of the “Check Your Comprehension” and “Critical Thinking” questions after each act in complete sentences.
9. 10 points - Find 10 examples of figurative language and draw cartoons representing the literal meaning.
10. 20 points – With a partner, create paper bag puppets representing 2-4 characters and perform a scene that illustrates a major conflict in the play. (I will provide supplies.

B-Level Tasks

1. 10 points - Propose an alternative ending to the play.  Your ending must be two-three pages long and written in the form of a drama.
   
   
2. 10 points – Create a newspaper that would have been in circulation during the time of the play.  Include the following:
1. A title                                                  d.  An obituary section
2. Two current events articles                 e.  A visual essay (comic strip, cartoon, etc.)
3. A weather report                                 f.  An editorial (opinion article)

Your newspaper should look like a “real” newspaper.  Be neat and creative!

 

A-Level Tasks

1. 10 points - Write a research question that relates to a major issue/theme in the play and survey 20 of your peers to discover how adolescents in current times feel about the issue.  Present your survey results in graphical form on a poster or other visual aid that can be displayed in the classroom, and write a three-five paragraph analysis of how your peers feel about this issue vs. how the characters in the play felt about or dealt with this issue.
   
   
2. 10 points – Find newspaper or magazine articles that illustrate current views on FIVE major themes in the play.  Create a collage of these articles, and write one paragraph about each article in which you compare and contrast the modern perspective of the theme and perspective on the theme provided in Romeo and Juliet.  For example, I might find an article that represents how teenagers today react to their parents’ rules.  In my paragraph, I would compare and contrast their reactions to those of Romeo and Juliet.