Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art you talking about?

Lesson 6

Play vs Story

• Romeo and Juliet structured as a play• Play meaning a stage representation– Story is told in a script format to be

acted out on stage

Reading a Play

Six Parts• Act• Scene• Stage Direction• Character• Dialogue• Parenthetical

ACT I

Scene 1: late morning, in a classroom

Ms. A enters the room and calls for the class' attention.MS. A

Okay ladies and gents, it's time to work on the bell ringer! Quietly begin while I take attendance!

Ms. A begins to call out the names. Students begin working on the bell ringer, and call "here" when they hear their name.MS. A(looking around the room)

Who wants to go up and do the bell ringer on the board for us? Anybody?

STUDENT(annoyed)

I guess I will...The student shuffles to the board and reluctantly grabs a marker.

Act

Heading

Scene heading/descrip

tion

Stage Directions

Character

Dialogue

Parenthetical

Romeo & Juliet

• Broken into 5 Acts• Multiple scenes within each act• Stage directions give us character’s

actions, let us know what’s happening

• Parenthetical tells us how a character is saying something, or what action they make while speaking

Prologue: R + J

• Spoken by Chorus (regular actor that speaks to audience)

• Spoken directly to audience• Explains the premise of the story R+J– Overview of plot– Formatted in a certain way!

Exit Slip• Do you think love is worth dying

for? Explain in one paragraph why or why not.