ENGLISH I
Unit: Romeo and Juliet
Assignments for the week of June 1-5
Monday: in class--read Act V; scene iii, introduce memorization assignment (quiz)
Tuesday: in class--work on Who's to Blame???!!! (group work)
Wednesday: in class--Romeo and Juliet trial (present case)
Thursday: in class--
Friday: final quiz--memorize 14 lines from play (either written or oral)
Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary
Act I
Pernicious: causing great injury or ruin; deadly
Transgression: wrongdoing, sin
Heretics: those who hold a belief opposed to the established teachings of a church
Augmenting: increasing, enlarging
Grievance: injustice; complaint
Act II
Procure: get, obtain
Lamentable: distressing, sad
Vile: worthless, cheap, low
Cunning: cleverness, slyness
Unwieldy: awkward, clumsy
Act III
Fray: noisy fight
Gallant: brave, noble
Martial: military
Exile: banish
Abhors: detests, intensely dislikes
Act IV
Pensive: thoughtful
Enjoined: ordered
Dismal: depressing/gloomy
Loathsome: disgusting
Pilgrimage: journey
Students and Parents:
The play will be read in class only; however, if you miss a day of class, it is your responsibility to set up a time with Mrs. Joseph/Mrs. Klug to make up the reading assignment.
Attention Students: You may print out this studyguide to help you prepare for quizzes over acts. The guide is strictly voluntary but recommended to help with comprehension.
Prologue
1. Why is the prologue important?
2. What atmosphere does the prologue suggest will be the most stressed in the play?
Act I, Scene i
1. Name the heads of the two households or families mentioned in the first line of the prologue.
2. Why does Shakespeare begin the play with a feud between the servants?
3. Who is Benvolio? What lines characterize him?
4. Who is the real culprit of the fight?
5. Explain Lady Capulet’s remark: “A crutch, a crutch!”
6. What threat does Prince Escalus make against “enemies of peace”?
7. Do you think the threat will or will not end the conflict between the feuding families?
8. What is Romeo’s mood in the first scene and what has caused it?
9. How does Benvolio say Romeo can alter these moods?
10. How does Romeo react to Benvolio’s suggestion?
Act I, Scene ii
1. In his talk with Capulet, what proposal does Paris make?
2. State some of the reasons Capulet uses against the proposal?
3. What do you think is Shakespeare’s purpose in having the Capulets plan a party?
4. What orders does Capulet give the servant?
5. What comic situation arises when Benvolio and Romeo meet the servant?
6. What important name in particular is on the list?
7. What argument does Benvolio use to persuade Romeo to attend the party?
8. How does Romeo answer?
9. What purpose does Romeo have in agreeing to go to the party?
Act I, Scene iii
1. What new characters are introduced?
2. What does the nurse say about Juliet’s age?
3. What traits make up the character of the nurse?
4. What subjects does Lady Capulet want to take up with Juliet?
5. How does the nurse describe Paris?
6. What poetic figure of speech does lady Capulet use in describing Paris?
7. What idea do you get of Lady Capulet’s character?
8. What is Juliet’s attitude toward marrying Paris?
9. Who is the county Lady Capulet refers to?
10. What do we learn about how the characters closest to Juliet handle her?
Act I, Scene iv
1. Who is introduced in this scene?
2. What was the custom in those days for men attending balls and revels?
3. Contrast the attitudes of Romeo and Mercutio.
4. What does Mercutio say in his Queen Mab speech about dreams?
5. What is the purpose of Romeo’s speech at the last of the scene?
Act I, Scene v
1. Where does the scene take place?
2. What type of organization is found?
3. What is the general atmosphere of the party?
4. What impression does Juliet make on Romeo?
5. How is the atmosphere affected by Tybalt’s attitude toward Romeo?
6. How do Romeo and Juliet speak to each other?
7. After all have made their exits except Juliet and the nurse, what does Juliet ask her?
8. What is the discovery each makes about each other?
9. What is the atmosphere as the scene ends?
10. How does the discovery of their being from enemy families affect Romeo and Juliet?
Act II, Scene i
1. Why does Romeo hide from Benvolio and Mercutio?
2. Do Benvolio and Mercutio realize that Romeo has found a new love? Find lines to prove your answer.
Act II, Scene ii
1. What description of Juliet does Romeo give?
2. What accident occurs as Juliet speaks?
3. Who interrupts the scene?
4. What lines express their difficult in parting?
5. Find the lines where they exchange “love’s faithful vows”.
6. When will they meet again?
7. After Juliet leaves the second time, what does Romeo decide to do?
8. Do you think the same dramatic poetry is used in the garden scene? Explain your answer.
Act II, Scene iii
1. Describe some of the traits given to the Friar.
2. What reference does the Friar make about Rosaline?
3. How does the Friar react to Romeo’s pledge of love for Juliet?
4. What does the Friar say when he understands it is Juliet to whom Romeo is referring?
5. Did the Friar and Rosaline know that Romeo’s love was not really for Rosaline?
6. Why does the Friar finally accept Romeo’s proposal?
Act II, Scene iv
1. What opinion does Mercutio express as to what is the cause of Romeo’s melancholy?
2. What information does Benvolio give?
3. How does Mercutio describe Tybalt?
4. What discovery does Mercutio make to Romeo?
5. Who enters now?
6. State a grammatical mistake the nurse makes which Mercutio plays on.
7. How does the nurse react?
8. What does the nurse tell Romeo about Paris?
9. What instructions does Romeo give to the nurse?
10. Does the nurse agree out of respect for Juliet?
11. What is Romeo compared to by the nurse at the end of the scene?
Act II, Scenes iv and v
1. What is the effect upon Juliet of the long delay in the nurse’s return?
2. What is the nurse’s character as indicated by delaying Romeo’s message?
3. What words of Friar Lawrence at the beginning of this scene foreshadow what is soon to come to the young lovers?
4. What warning does Friar give?
5. Who enters now?
6. What action does Friar take?
Act III, Scene i
1. What does Benvolio say about the weather?
2. Who enters and tries to stir up the feud?
3. What two characters try to act as peacemakers?
4. Why does Romeo act as he does?
5. What does Mercutio address Tybalt as?
6. What does Romeo try to do when the two men fight?
7. What results from this attempt?
8. How does Mercutio take the fatal wound?
9. Why does Shakespeare make Romeo’s well – intentioned interference’s result in death?
10. Why does Romeo feel justified in avenging Mercutio’s death?
11. When Tybalt returns, what happens?
12. What warning does Benvolio give to Romeo?
13. What does Romeo say of himself? Is this true?
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16. Who begs for revenge?
17. What does Montague say?
18. What sentence does the prince pronounce upon Romeo?
Act III, Scene ii
1. What does Juliet ask for in the first sixteen lines?
2. Who enters and what is brought?
3. Is the nurses’ account clear?
4. What is Juliet’s immediate reaction when she finds it is Tybalt who is dead?
5. How do we know, however, that despite everything, Juliet will remain true to Romeo?
6. On what mission does the nurse go?
7. Where in this scene do we begin to lose feelings for the nurse?
Act III, Scene iii
1. What is the effect on Romeo of the announcement by the Friar of the Prince’s exiling him?
2. Whose grief at misfortune is more uncontrolled – Romeo’s or Juliet’s?
3. What arguments does the friar use in attempting to convince Romeo that his despair is not justified?
4. When the nurse enters, what does she tell Romeo?
5. What effect does the nurse’s information about Juliet’s reaction have on Romeo?
6. What is the effect on Romeo upon receiving Juliet’s ring?
7. What steps does the Friar think should be taken to safeguard Romeo?
8. How does Romeo react to this?
Act III, Scene iv and v
1. What arrangements for Juliet’s marriage to Paris does Capulet make?
2. Why is it all right to have Juliet marry Paris in an arranged fashion?
3. What is Capulet’s reaction to Juliet’s stand against the marriage?
4. What day is it now?
5. What is the attitude of Lady Capulet toward Juliet’s defiance?
6. What does the nurse suggest Juliet do?
7. What is the dramatic effect of the well – intentioned, but ill – advised action of Capulet?
8. What does Juliet actually plan to do?
Act IV, Scene i
1. Where does this scene take place?
2. Why does Paris call on Friar Laurence?
3. What traits of character does Juliet reveal in her conversation with Paris?
4. Point out double or hidden meanings in Juliet’s remarks to Paris.
5. If the Friar cannot help Juliet, what does she intend to do?
6. What is Friar Laurence’s plan to meet the emergency?
7. How does Juliet react?
8. What immediate action does the Friar take?
Act IV, Scene ii
1. What direction for the wedding feast does Capulet give the servants?
2. How does Juliet appear?
3. What other alternatives could Juliet have taken?
4. Why does Juliet promise obedience to her father?
5. When does Capulet agree for the wedding to be taken place?
Act IV, Scene iii
1. What request does Juliet make of the nurse?
2. What questions and doubts come to Juliet’s mind during the famous “ potion” scent?
3. What is her reason for drinking the potion?
4. What are your feelings toward Juliet in this scene?
Act IV, Scene iv
1. What is the nature and mood of scene 4?
2. Why is the hustle and bustle of the preparation for the wedding feast so ironic?
Act IV, Scene v
1. What is Juliet’s condition when the nurse attempts to awaken her?
2. What are your feelings toward Lady and Lord Capulet as they lament the death of their daughter?
3. Why had Juliet not taken the nurse into her confidence concerning the Friar’s plan?
Act V, Scene i
1. Where does this scene take place?
2. What is Romeo’s mood at the beginning of this scene?
3. What news does Balthasar bring from Verona?
4. What is the immediate effect upon Romeo?
5. Why does Romeo say ironically, “ No matter,” when Balthasar says he has no letters from the Friar?
6. Why would Romeo have trouble buying poison?
7. What arguments does Romeo use on the apothecary to buy the dram of poison?
8. How does Romeo address the poison?
Act V, Scene ii
1. Where is the setting
2. Who makes the first entrance here?
3. What happened to Friar John on his mission?
4. Whose safety is Friar Laurence worried about?
5. What does he order Friar John to do?
6. Where will the remaining action occur?
Act V, Scene iii
1. Why has Paris come to the Capulet’s tomb?
2. Why has Romeo also come here?
3. What orders does Paris give his page?
4. Why does Paris feel justified in his determination to slay Romeo?
5. How does Romeo try to persuade Paris to leave?
6. What happens when Paris fails to heed Romeo’s pleas?
7. How does Romeo feel as he takes the poison?
8. What does Friar urge Juliet to do after she awakens?
9. Why does he leave the tomb? Was it right or wrong?
10. How does Juliet first try to take her life?
11. How does she finally achieve her aims?
12. Whom does the watch arrest?
13. What does Montague announce?
14. How does Shakespeare reveal the whole plot and untangle its threads to complete the story?
15. What proof does Romeo’s letter give in the clearance of the Friar?
16. How, at long lost, do old Montague and Capulet show that they have learned the price of enmity between the families?
17. Who is the final speaker and why?
Greek Vocabulary Week 1 Roots
1. anthrop = man; mankind
2. phil = love
3. miso = hate
4. biblio, bibl = book
5. phon = sound
6. graph, gram = write; draw; describe; record
7. scop, scept, skept = look at; examine
8. arch, archi = rule; govern** (make sure not archae = ancient)
9. dem = people
10. gen, gon = kind; race; origin** (make sure not gon = angle)
WEEK 2 (PREFIXES & SUFFIXES)
1. eu- = good; well
2. caco- = bad; ill
3. mega-, megalo- = large
4. micro- = small
5. macro- = large; long
6. tele-, tel-, telo- = far; distant
7. ortho- = correct; right; straight
8. archae-, archa- = ancient
9. -mania, -maniac, -manic, -maniacal = madness for; excessive
fondness for ; one who has a madness for
10. - phobia, -phobe, -phobist, -phobic, -phobiac = dread of;
morbid fear of; one who has a morbid fear of
WEEK 3 (ROOTS & PREFIXES)
1. gon = angle
2. gyn, gyne, gynaec, gynec = woman
3. log = idea; word; speech; discussion; study of** (Please
memorize log as study of.)
4. hetero- = various; unlike
5. homo- = same
6. olig- = few
7. pan-, panto- = all
8. poly- = many
9. mono- = one
10. bi- = two
11. dis-, di- = two; twice
12. iso- = equal
WEEK 4 (ROOTS & SUFFIXES)
1. theo = god
2. geo = earth
3. helio = sun
4. dyn, dynam = power; force
5. chron = time
6. chrom, chromat, chro = color
7. meter, metr = measure
8. center, centr = center
9. cycl = circle
10. -latry, -later, -latrous = worship; worshipper; worshipping
11. -mancy, -mancer, -mantic = divination; prophecy
WEEK 5 (ROOTS & PREFIXES)
1. path= feeling; disease
2. batho, bathy = depth
3. therap = cure
4. haem, hem, -aem, em = blood
5. rhea, rheo, rrh, rhag = flow; gush; burst
6. stat, stas = stand; stop
7. gno, gnos = know
8. hemi- = half
9. tauto- = same
WEEK 6 (ROOTS)
1. tom = cut
2. ton, ten = stretch; tone
3. chir = hand
4. pod = foot
5. cephal = head
6. dactyl = finger; toe
7. gloss, glott, glot = tongue; language
8. osteo = bone
9. derm, dermat = skin
10. plas, plasm, plast = mold; shape; form; substance
WEEK 7 (ROOTS)
1. bio = life
2. phys = nature; growth
3. psych = mind; soul; spirit
4. soma, somat = body
5. lith, -lite = stone
6. petr, peter = rock
7. glyph, glypt = carving
8. icon = image; idol
9. astr = star
10. nom = arrangement; law
WEEK 8 (ROOTS, PREFIXES, & SUFFIX)
1. onoma, onym = name
2. ec, oec = house; environment
3. ethn = nation
4. paleo- = ancient
5. neo- = new
6. hier- = sacred
7. idio- = oneís own; individual
8. ideo-, idea- = idea
9. auto- = self
10. -clasm, -clast = breakage; destruction; one who shatters or
destroys
WEEK 9 (ROOTS & SUFFIXES)
1. cosm = order; world
2. polit, polis = city
3. crit, cris = separate; discern; judge
4. top = place
5. thalass, thalatt = sea
6. naus, nau = ship
7. plut = wealth
8. -cracy, -crat, -cratic = rule; government; one who rules
9. athl = prize
WEEK 10 (ROOTS)
1. dendr, dender = tree
2. phyll, phyllo = leaf
3. phyt = plant
4. anth = flower
5. sperm, spermat, spor = seed; sowing
6. zo = animal
7. hipp = horse
8. drom = a running; course
9. ornith = bird
10. ichthy = fish
WEEK 11 (ROOTS, PREFIXES, & SUFFIXES)
1. entom = insect
2. tox, toxic = poison
3. phag = eat
4. gam = marriage
5. morph = form
6. holo- = whole
7. allo- = other
8. acro- = top; tip; end
9. -oidism, -oidal, -oid = resemblance; that which resembles;
like
10. paed-, ped- = child; instruction
WEEK 12 (ROOTS)
1. techn = art; skill
2. mim = imitate
3. crypt = conceal
4. phan, phen = show; appear; shine
5. trop = turn; respond to
6. troph = feed; nourish (not trophyóit comes from trop)
7. dox- = belief; opinion
8. klin, clin = lean; lie; incline
9. ag, agog = lead
WEEK 13 (ROOTS)
1. bas, bat = step; go
2. bal, ball, bol, bl = throw
3. therm = heat
4. hydr = water
5. hygr = moisture
6. bar = weight; pressure
7. phot, phos = light
8. pyr = fire
9. aer = lower air
10. ether = upper air
11. kin, kino, cinem, cinemat = movement
WEEK 14 (ROOTS, PREFIXES, & SUFFIXES)
1. caust, caut = burn
2. schiz, schis = split; cleave
3. od = way; path (not ode, parody, or rhapsody)
4. aesth, esth = feeling; perception
5. neur = nerve
6. pseudo- = false; counterfeit
7. dys- = difficult; bad
8. -phoria, -phery, - phor, - pher, -phorous, -phoric = that
which bears; carries; produces
9. -orama, -oramist, -oramic = view; one who views;
pertaining to viewing
WEEK 15 (ROOTS)
1. pneum, pneumat, -phea = breath; wind
2. opt, ops, op = sight; view; eye
3. ophthalm = eye
4. them, the, thet, thec, thek = put; place
5. thanat, thanas = death
6. necro = dead
7. mnem, mne, mnes = memory
8. soph = wise
9. tax, tact = arrangement; order
(Donít confuse with tact meaning touch)
WEEK 16 (PREFIXES)
1. proto- = first
2. deutero- = second
3. tri- = three
4. tetra- = four
5. penta- = five
6. hex- = six
7. hepta- = seven
8. octo- = eight
9. deka-, deca-, dec- = ten
WEEK 17 ( PREFIXES)
1. hecato-, hecatom-, hecaton-, hect- = hundred
2. kilo-= thousand
3. a-, an- = without; not
4. amphi-, amph- = both; around
5. anti-, ant- = against
6. apo-, ap- = from; off
7. cata-, cat- = down; against; very
8. dia- = through; across
9. ec-, ecto-, ex- = out
WEEK 18 (PREFIXES)
1. en-, em- = in
2. endo-, enter-, end-, ent- = within
3. epi-, ep- = upon; at; in addition
4. hyper- = over; excessively
5. hypo- hyp- = under; less than; too little
6. para-, par- = beside; contrary; amiss; astray
7. peri- = around
8. pro- = before
9. pros- = toward
10. syn-, syl-, sym-, sy- = with; together
THE 3 OPTIONAL WEEKS:
WEEK 19 (ROOTS)
1. alg, algia, algo = pain
2. andr, andro = man; male
3. arthr, arthro = joint; speech sound or articulation
4. blast, blasto = bud; formative substance; embryonic cell
5. cardi, cardio = heart
6. chlor, chloro = green; yellowish-green; chlorine
7. chondr, chondri, chondro = cartilage
8. cocc, cocci coccus = berry; grain; seed; spherical bacterium
9. cyst, cysto = bladder; sac; sac containing morbid matter
10. cyt, cyto = cell
WEEK 20 (ROOTS)
1. gastr, gastro = stomach
2. ger, geront = old age; old people
3. hepat, hepato = liver
4. hist, histo = tissue
5. hyster, hystero = uterus; hysteria
6. laryngo, laryng = throat; larynx
7. leuc, leuk = white
8. mast, masto = breast
9. melan = black; dark
10. my, myo = muscle
WEEK 21 (ROOTS)
1. nephr, nephro = kidney
2. ot, oto = ear
3. pep, pept = digest
4. phleb, phlebo = vein
5. phren, phreno, phrenia = mind; diaphragm
6. py, pyo = pus
7. rhin, rrhin = nose
8. stom, stomat, stomato = mouth
9. throm, thromb = clot
10. ur, uro = urine
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