Today we looked at a couple of famous passages in 1.5. The first is the torches passage: There is a lot happening in that passage, including the introduction of the primary motif in the play: light and dark. We also read Romeo and Juliet’s meeting: It...
Students spent the morning going over the LEAP test for the state education department, so we were on a testing schedule that gave students a little over half an hour in each class. In the limited time we had, we began by going over the mental scene summary we should...
Today we began with a look at a critical line from 1.3: Students were to identify the speaker solely from the passage and its context clues. One clue is in the first line, the inverted construction: “I’ll look to like, if looking liking move.”...
Today we looked at the nurse and her opening monologue: Even or odd, of all days in the year, Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen. Susan and she–God rest all Christian souls!– Were of an age: well, Susan is with God; She was too good for me:...
Today we finished up 1.1 by reviewing some famously oxymoronic lines from Romeo: Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will! Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here? Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all....
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