English Homework for Thursday, May 28, Day 1

CLASS ONE (DUE FRIDAY): IN SHAKESPEARE'S ORIGINAL ROMEO AND JULIET, THERE IS NO FUNERAL SCENE. THERE IS, HOWEVER, A FUNERAL SCENE IN ZEFFIRELLI'S VERSION. IN MOST FUNERALS, PAST AND PRESENT, THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES FOR MOURNERS TO REMEMBER THOSE WHO DIED. WHAT THEY SAY IS AN ELEGY, HONORING AND REMEMBERING THE DEAD. PERHAPS SOME OF YOU WITNESSED ELEGIES GIVEN TO VETERANS WHO HAVE DIED DEFENDING OUR COUNTRY. IMAGINE, THEN, AN ELEGY GIVEN IN HONOR OF JULIET BY EITHER HER COUSIN ROSALINE OR HER ALMOST-BRIDEGROOM PARIS. USE THE R.A.F.T. RUBRIC AS YOUR GUIDE AND THE VCOCAB LIST AS A HELPMATE AS YOU EULOGIZE JULIET AND PERHAPS QUESTION HER SUDDEN "DEATH."

CLASS TWO: SAME AS CLASS ONE EXCEPT YOUR ELEGY IS DUE THURSDAY AND YOU MUST READ ACT V, SCENES 1 AND 2.

CLASS FIVE: COMPARE AND CONTRAST ACT IV OF ZEFFIRELLI'S VERSION OF ROMEO AND JULIET TO SHAKESPEARE'S ORIGINAL VERSION OF ACT IV, ROMEO AND JULIET . YOU MUST FIND THREE SIMILARITIES AND THREE DIFFERENCES. YOUR "REPORT" MUST BE IN ESSAY FORM.

CLASS SIX: SEE TUESDAY'S POSTING.