Goals

Elizabeth Matrician
Mini Project 3
Goals and Objectives

1. SWBAT- Compare and contrast a soliloquy and a prologue.
2. SWBAT- Identify different types of plays.
3. SWBAT- Define different features of plays. (ex. protagonist, scene, tradgedy etc.)

Rationale:
    Romeo and Juliet, like all of Shakespeare's work, is difficult to understand for native speakers as well as English language learners. English classes will have unit on Shakespearian plays, I thought this webiste could be used in addition to their classes.
    There are mulitple words and word phrases that have been glossed for students. In addition, there are questions that look different parts of the play Romeo and Juliet at a basic level. By doing this, students can overlook all of the descriptive extras and understand what the point of the passage is.
    The first two pages present an introduction to plays as well as an introduction to Romeo and Juliet. Multiple characters are highlighted with brief descriptions of the roles they take in the play. Also specific features of plays have been identified such as how to refer to a play (scene, act, line), some types of plays (comedies, tradgedies, and musicals), and the type of characters in the play (protagonist, antagonist).
Shakespeare seems to have mulitple soliloquy's and prologues throughout all of his plays (like other playwrights) so that is why I choose to focus on the prologue and the soliloquy.
    There is a section of context clues. The words have been choosen because they do occur in the play (specifically act 1). Even though the website does not account for all of act one (and the soliloquy - perhaps the most famous is not in act one) the website is to be used in addition to their classes. It is possible that the students may have already finished reading the play and need extra practice.
    At the end of the webiste, there is a quiz that students can fill out and then print (or vice versa) that compares the two excerpts and asks additional question regarding other parts of the play, such as major themes (contrasting ideas [Montagues and Capulets] and [love and hate] etc.)

    In reagards to how the webiste is set up I have decided to make each page link only to the table of contents and to the previous and next pages. I want the students to follow a specific pattern that ends with the quiz so that way the material flows (especially in the case of the excerpt and then the next page "what it really said") in a linear pattern but they do have the ability to access all of the pages through the table of contents.

Sources:
Dictionary.com
Google.com/images
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/romeo_juliet/romeo_juliet.1.0.html (PROLOGUE)
http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/quotes/what-light-through-yonder-window-breaks/ (SOLILOQUY)
Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare made Easy). Barron's Educational Series, 1st U.S. edition. 1985.

Nelson, Barbara. MODO Function.

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