HONORS May 20

Agenda:

We started class with some improvisations of scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

Then we reread scenes 4 and 5 of Act IV.

We translated Juliet's soliloquy in which she speculates what horrors might await her should she wake in the Capulet's tomb after taking the poison that Friar Laurence had prepared for her.

We started the read-a-long of Act V in which Romeo hears false intelligence of Juliet's death, and wrought with grief, he bribes a poor apothecary to sell him poison even though the sale of poison was punishable by death in Mantua. Act V explains why Friar John couldn't deliver the proper information to Romeo, and later, when Romeo returns to kill himself next to Juliet, he first slays Paris who is there to mourn the death of his would-be wife. Friar Laurence arrives moments too late, and he finds dead Romeo next to an awakening Juliet. Friar Laurence begs Juliet to run away, but she stays and, finding no extra poison in Romeo's cup, stabs herself. The play wraps up with the Capulets and the Montagues ending their feud and each patriarch promising to erect a statue in memory of the other's fallen child.

Homework:

Exercises 1,2,3, and 4. Please write out all sentences.

Take home quiz on Act IV. Mark answers on the quiz itself.

Finish Act V and review the entire play. The next class will be an exam review.