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Objectives
This is a revision activity. It will remind you of the main events of the play, the order in which these happen and the speed with which they take place. There is a study guide available to help you with this.
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Outcomes
By working through this activity you will:
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create a storyboard showing the main events of the play on the days on which they occur.
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Resources
To complete the activity you will need:
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Kar2ouche Romeo and Juliet Content Library
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1. First open the Five Days storyboard. This gives you a number of blank frames divided by frames labelled with the days of the week.
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to open the Five Days storyboard
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2. Use the study guide below/on a printed sheet to help you to decide how to fill in the blank frames in the storyboard:
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SUNDAY: The action of the play begins on a Sunday in mid-July. (You can work this out from Capulet’s conversation with Paris in Act 3 Scene 4 line 18, and the Nurse’s comment about Lammas-tide in Act 1 Scene 3 lines 15-16.) The Balcony Scene takes place late Sunday night/early Monday morning, and during this meeting Juliet arranges to send for a message from Romeo by nine the following morning. (Act 2 Scene 2 lines 142-153 and 167-168.)
Look through this section of the play (from the opening to the end of Act 2 Scene 2) and decide which three events from this day you are going to use for your storyboard. You should choose episodes that are important for the development of the plot. Now fill in the three frames, which have been left blank in the Five Days storyboard between the frames labelled ‘Sunday’ and ‘Monday’.
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MONDAY: Romeo arrives at Friar Laurence’s early on Monday morning (Act 2 Scene 2 lines 28-39). Monday ends with Capulet’s conversation with Paris (Act 3 Scene 4 lines 1-7; 33-5) during which he arranges that Paris and Juliet’s wedding will take place on Thursday (lines 19-21).
Look through this section of the play, and decide which three key events you are going to represent in the frames between ‘Monday’ and ‘Tuesday’ in your storyboard. Compose these now.
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TUESDAY: Tuesday begins with Romeo and Juliet’s parting (Act 3 Scene 5 lines 6-10 and 39-40) and ends with Juliet drinking the Friar’s potion (Act 4 Scene 3). A great deal happens on this day, including Juliet’s wedding being brought forward to Wednesday by her father (Act 4 Scene 2 lines 24 and 37-46).
Decide which three moments are most important to the development of the plot in this section and then compose these frames in the ‘Tuesday’ section of the storyboard.
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WEDNESDAY: The Capulet household has been up all Tuesday night making preparations for the wedding. (Act 4 Scene 4 lines 3-7.) Late on Wednesday night Paris, Romeo and Juliet die at the tomb (Act 5 Scene 3).
Look over the events that take place on this day and decide which three are going to be included in the ‘Wednesday’ section of your storyboard. Then compose the frames.
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THURSDAY: The Prince and Romeo and Juliet’s parents discover the bodies of the dead lovers very early on Thursday morning (Act 5 Scene 3 lines 188-211 and 305). Look over the last half of this final scene and compose the final frame for your storyboard.
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3. Drag and drop your completed frames into a template in the printing screen and then print your storyboard.
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4. Your teacher will organise you into small groups so that you can compare the storyboards you have created, and discuss the similarities and differences between them. As a group, come to a decision as to which storyboard you think is the best and why.
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5. Using your storyboard to help you, write the diary entries for one of the characters for the days covered by the play. For example, you could write the diary of Benvolio, the Nurse or Friar Laurence. You will have to think carefully about the character who is writing the diary: their sex, social position, personality and temperament. You will also have to consider whether they do in fact know about all of the events that take place at the time they occur – or whether they only find out about some of the things that happen at the very end of the play.
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