HW: Complete Reading Response Journal 1.4
Be sure to re-read 1.4 if necessary!
Be sure to re-read 1.4 if necessary!
Act 1, Scene 4
Check Your Comprehension! If you read well, you should be able put these events in order.
A. Some Montagues and Capulets engage in a street brawl
B. Romeo is asked to read the guest list.
C. Romeo and Mercutio argue about whether or not Romeo is going to Capulet’s party.
D. The nurse tells a story about Juliet as an infant
E. Lady Capulet speaks to Juliet about count Paris
Extended response:
Close Reading is the practice of examining just a few lines in a book and analyzing them. In other words, it’s like looking closely at one grain of sand on an entire beach. Much can be learned from this practice. We’ll begin today. Read the quote given below and answer the following questions: Who is the speaker and who is being spoken to? Where is the speaker? What, in your own words, is being said? What themes from the text are evident in this quote? Are any literary techniques being used? (Metaphor? Simile? Personification? Foreshadowing?) Why is this quote important to the entire story?
1.4.114-119—
I fear, to early; for my mind misgives
Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars,
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night’s revels and expire the term
Of a despised life, closed in my breast,
By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
Check Your Comprehension! If you read well, you should be able put these events in order.
A. Some Montagues and Capulets engage in a street brawl
B. Romeo is asked to read the guest list.
C. Romeo and Mercutio argue about whether or not Romeo is going to Capulet’s party.
D. The nurse tells a story about Juliet as an infant
E. Lady Capulet speaks to Juliet about count Paris
Extended response:
Close Reading is the practice of examining just a few lines in a book and analyzing them. In other words, it’s like looking closely at one grain of sand on an entire beach. Much can be learned from this practice. We’ll begin today. Read the quote given below and answer the following questions: Who is the speaker and who is being spoken to? Where is the speaker? What, in your own words, is being said? What themes from the text are evident in this quote? Are any literary techniques being used? (Metaphor? Simile? Personification? Foreshadowing?) Why is this quote important to the entire story?
1.4.114-119—
I fear, to early; for my mind misgives
Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars,
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night’s revels and expire the term
Of a despised life, closed in my breast,
By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
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