Lesson+Plan

= = = = __Lesson Plan__ =Title: __Romeo & Juliet: New VS Old__ = =Subject: English = =Author: Michelle Pascale = =Grade Level: 9-12 = = = =__Overview:__ Students are to compare and contrast the traditional //__Romeo and Juliet__// play to that of the modern-day movie version. = =Objectives: Through use of the internet and the library, 12th grade students will use Inspiration software to create a comparing and contrasting map of Shakespeare’s play //__Romeo and Juliet__// to Baz Luhrmann’s movie version showing 95% reading comprehension. = = = =__Materials Needed:__ William Shakespeare’s //__Romeo and Juliet__//; The movie, Romeo + Juliet (1996); TV; DVD Player; Laptops, including Inspiration software = = = =__Activities and Procedures:__ Students will read William Shakespeare’s play //__Romeo and Juliet__//, and watch the 1996 movie version of that play. Then they will create through Inspiration = = = =__Assessment:__ Students will show their comprehension of the story of //__Romeo and Juliet__// through creating a compare and contrast map of Shakespeare and Luhrmann’s versions using Inspiration software. = = = =__Standards:__ (1) LA.1112.1.7.1: The student will use background knowledge of subject and related content areas, prereading strategies (e.g., previewing, discussing, generating questions), text features, and text structure to make and confirm complex predictions of content, purpose, and organization of a reading selection; (2) LA.1112.1.7.3: The student will determine the main idea or essential message in grade-level or higher texts through inferring, paraphrasing, summarizing, and identifying relevant details and facts; (3) LA.1112.1.7.7: The student will compare and contrast elements in multiple texts. =