TIP: There will likely be a surprise quiz on Act 1 tomorrow. When asked by her mother "How stands your disposition to be married?", Juliet replies with WHAT words? (i.e. make sure you know what Juliet says)
We began class by taking a few notes and discussing the following:
-Old English, Middle English, and Modern English
-archetypes and archetypal characters (Romeo and Juliet is an archetypal story; the doomed lovers are archetypal characters)
-an archetype is an original model after which other things are patterned (similar to a prototype)
-unrequited love (love that is not reciprocated)
-the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet (three quatrains and a couplet)
We finished reading Act 1. Romeo and Juliet met at the Capulet ball and both are reveling in the ecstasy of their new-found love but also agonizing that they've discovered that they are each others enemy.
We wrote down the outline for our English 10 final exam and began discussing it. Students were presented with some student samples of the composition from an old final exam. Students seemed generally surprised at how attainable a 4 out of 6 is on the composition.
