Kasic

Berthoud High School

Pre AP English 9

Unit: Shakespeare and Love

Day: 4 How to Read Shakespeare Out Loud Continued

CCSS Standards:

1.1.b. Use verbal and nonverbal techniques to communicate information.

2.2.e.i. Critique author's choice of expository, narrative, persuasive, or descriptive modes to

convey a message.

Understandings: Students will gain skills that will help us better understand the play as we read
it in class by learning about Tone, Subtext, and Stress and how that can affect what a passage
means.

Inquiry Questions: How does verbal performance affect our understanding of words and
phrases.

Evidence Outcomes: Students will be able to discern the difference in meanings by looking at
how words and phrases are delivered.

Learning Target: To be able to read with emotion and intention.

Success Criteria: Reading of the play will be enjoyable.

List of Assessments:
- Reading allowed in class
- Culminating Text Performance Piece
Materials:
- PLAY: Romeo and Juliet
- Culminating Text Sheet
- VIDEO: BBC Hamlet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGTR__LiueM
- Prezi: https://prezi.com/dtwu06_1kiq9/edit/#4_24309637
Approx. Time 47 minutes
Procedure:
I. Warm Up: Vocab
a. profane (adj.) unholy, defiled, impure
b. Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,
Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel, Act 1 Scene 1
II. Explain Culminating Text
III. Watch BBC Hamlet
a. Discussion
i. Who did you see?
ii. What were they discussing?
iii. What is the joke?
iv. How does this connect to our reading of Romeo and Juliet?
IV. Recap Day 3
a. Tone, Subtext, Stress
b. Plot Act 1 Scene 1
V. Read Act 1 Finnish Scene 1 and 2 (hopefully)