Once you have picked your
scene, characterization, event, relationship, etc from the text and movie
versions of Romeo and Juliet, you need to establish what specific similarities
and differences you are going to be analyzing. (All of this is explained on the
assignment sheet you should have, if you don't, here is a link to
it)
You should look for two specific similarities and two specific differences. These could be between two versions or among all three.
Once you know the similarities and differences you want to focus on, you are going to think about why the directors chose to keep them similar or to change. For this, think about the impact of the choice made by the director, what came before the choice and what comes after it.
With the 'why' in mind, you are going to find textual evidence from Shakespeare's text to support why you believe the directors made the choices that they did. With all of this in your head/in your notes, you are ready to make an outline for your essay.
You will follow the Outline template that I handed out to you, where I. is introduction, II. is body, and III. is conclusion. Your first step is to organize your ideas. Are you going to write about similarities in one section and then differences in another, or are there other logical ways to organize your ideas. This link will take you to an outline organized by similarities and differences. This link will take you to an outline organized by big ideas (that link actually has two outlines, they are both the same material, but organized in two different ways. The first one is the similarity/diff way, the second is the main point way.).
Once you have figured out how you are organizing it, put your information that you have (similarities, textual evidence to support, differences, textual evidence to support) into the outline.
By Tuesday the 18th you should have a first draft outline for me to check so that we can work on it and prepare for the essay portion of the test, which is on Wednesday (4/19).
You should look for two specific similarities and two specific differences. These could be between two versions or among all three.
Once you know the similarities and differences you want to focus on, you are going to think about why the directors chose to keep them similar or to change. For this, think about the impact of the choice made by the director, what came before the choice and what comes after it.
With the 'why' in mind, you are going to find textual evidence from Shakespeare's text to support why you believe the directors made the choices that they did. With all of this in your head/in your notes, you are ready to make an outline for your essay.
You will follow the Outline template that I handed out to you, where I. is introduction, II. is body, and III. is conclusion. Your first step is to organize your ideas. Are you going to write about similarities in one section and then differences in another, or are there other logical ways to organize your ideas. This link will take you to an outline organized by similarities and differences. This link will take you to an outline organized by big ideas (that link actually has two outlines, they are both the same material, but organized in two different ways. The first one is the similarity/diff way, the second is the main point way.).
Once you have figured out how you are organizing it, put your information that you have (similarities, textual evidence to support, differences, textual evidence to support) into the outline.
By Tuesday the 18th you should have a first draft outline for me to check so that we can work on it and prepare for the essay portion of the test, which is on Wednesday (4/19).
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