Today (Monday, April 6, 2020) is a professional development day. Teachers get the day to work on Distance Learning and students get the day off. The lessons for this week will be posted to Google Classroom tomorrow. All assignments are still due on Friday by 3:00.
If you want to get a head start, however, you can start reading Act III. I would love to show you a video and I have several DVDs - but they are in my classroom. I tried to find some good videos on YouTube but they are few and far between. There are a lot of videos that look like projects high school kids made in a park. ROMEO AND JULIET FILM VERSIONS: There are several movie versions of Romeo and Juliet you can watch if you want. The two most famous ones are Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version and Baz Luhrmann's 1996 Romeo + Juliet. You can watch the Zeffirelli version for free on Pluto TV here. It's free because it has ads. SO MANY ADS and you can't fast forward without watching a ton of ads. Ugh. There is a made-for-TV version you can watch for free using Kanopy. You need a library card to use Kanopy. If you do not have a library card, you can get a free digital library card without leaving your house! This one has no ads. Romeo + Juliet is streaming on Starz if you have it (but who has Starz??) Apparently you can watch it if you have Directv (which I do) but I tried it (you need to search "William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet") but it tried to charge me ten dollars, so no thanks! You can rent it for 2-4 dollars on YouTube or Amazon. There is a 2013 version that stars Hailee Steinfeld but I haven't seen it. I understand it is an adaptation that does not use Shakespeare's language. It is on Cinemax. This is the version that all of the photos in our textbook come from. ROMEO AND JULIET AUDIOBOOK VERSIONS: You can also listen to an audiobook for free here: https://stories.audible.com/pdp/B00K7EG2QK?ref=adbl_ent_anon_ds_pdp_pc_cntr-4-9 This version uses "chapters" and Act III starts at chapter 14. Basically it goes like this: Act III scene 1 = chapter 14 Act III scene 2 - chapter 15 Act III scene 3 - chapter 16 Act III scene 4 - chapter 17 Act III scene 5 - chapter 18 There is also an audio version that goes with our online textbook (this was assigned on Google Classroom). READING ROMEO AND JULIET: If you want to read, you can read the online textbook (it also has audio) which is on Google Classroom. I also assigned the Accessible Leveled Text if you want to read that - it has the text but cuts out some of the parts and puts in summary. You can read from your textbook - Act III is on pp. 425-449. You can also read the No Fear Shakespeare version here (it has Shakespeare's original text on the left and a version on the right that is written in a more easy-to-understand way: No Fear Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet I will also be posting some helpful videos this week. Comments are closed.
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