Lesson Plan Format

NAME: Hannah Weinberg-Kinsey

Lesson Title: Romeo and Juliet: Comparing an Adaptation to the Original
Grade level: 9

Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes

Learning Goal:
(Content
Standard/Common
Core)
Target Goal or Skill:
Essential Question(s):

Topical question(s):

Instructional
Objective(s):

# Students: 33

Specific: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.7
Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two
different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent
in each treatment.
Analyze Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in comparison to Baz Luhrman's
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
How do the differences in Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of Shakespeare's
play result in a specifically different message than the original play?
What messages in Baz Luhrmann's adaptation stay true to Shakespeare's
original play?

What parts of Shakespeare's original play are emphasized in Baz

Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996)? What parts of Shakespeare's original
play are absent in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996)? What parts of
Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996) are completely original?
Read and Listen to Act Three
Watch Act Three (Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996))
Use graphic organizers to compare and contrast
Write sentence of significance

Assessment
(Criteria / Look Fors/
Performance Tasks)

Formative: Completion of Compare and Contrast Grid

Summative: Evaluate sentence of significance

Disabilities/Diverse
Needs Represented
Student
Accommodations and/or
Modifications
Instructional Procedures
(including specific times)
Introduction:
(including motivational
hook where applicable)
Learning Activities:

ELL students
No Fear Shakespeare version with definitions and alternate text.
Multiple choices of graphic organizers for various learning styles
8-8:15 Announcements and ten minutes of silent individual reading
-Introduction: Explain end goalAnswer topical questions and post on
the wall. Show places we will hang finished sentences of significance.
-Read and Listen to Act Three
-Introduce compare and contrast grid
-Class brainstorm about striking features in Shakespeare's original
-Watch Act Three Romeo + Juliet (1996) (Mercutio's Death scene
specifically)

Closure:

Language Demands:
Function
Vocabulary
Syntax
Discourse

5 Questions (Blooms or
DOK)

Curriculum (APA)
e.g.

-Individual work time to finish compare and contrast grid

-Students complete sentence of significance speech bubbles (piece of
paper with speech bubbles where students will write one sentence that
answer a topical question
-Students hang sentences on the wall and read other students'
responses.

Comparing emphases and absences in the original play with an

adaptation
Shakespearean English
Text written in a play format, Shakespearean syntax differs from modern
day.
Comparison and contrast on a graphic organizer. Written answer to a
question of the significance similarities and differences between the
original play and the adaptation.
1. What happens in the play and movie? What does Shakespeare's
unfamiliar language actually mean?
2. What are the significant features in Shakespeare's original play?
What are significant features in Romeo + Juliet (1996)?
3. How do the significant features compare and contrast?
4. What are those significant features emphasizing? What are they
leaving out?
5. How does the emphasis or absence of various features change
the message or tone of message in the adaptation compared to
the original play?
Common Core

Investigations in Number,
Data, and Space. (2012).
Pearson.

Materials
Notes

Audio version. Romeo + Juliet (1996). Compare and Contrast Grid.

Sentence of Significance Speech Bubble. White board.