Thursday, January 13, 2011

Romeo and Juliet!

Shakespeare Project Journal #1:  How do you feel going into this project?  How are you feeling about having to read and perform Shakespeare?


Why Shakespeare?  (a short documentary by the National Endowment for the Arts)


Working with Shakespeare's language 
The Prologue of Romeo and Juliet:  analysis and choral reading


Project Journal #2:  What do you think of Shakespeare's language?  How does it feel to read it out loud?


Begin Film version:  Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet