Breakout EDU Box

What is a Breakout EDU kit?

Breakout EDU Box
Small Lock Box
Hasp
Directional Lock
Word Lock (5 letter)
Key Lock
Three-Digit Lock
Four-Digit Lock
1 Invisible Ink Pen
1 UV Light
1 USB Drive
2 Hint Cards

What is the objective?

Ever heard of escape rooms? They are appearing
all over the country, and the objective of them is
to escape by solving clues and working together.
Breakout EDU brings the same idea to the
classroom.

What does Breakout EDU do?

The Four Cs
Critical Thinking
Collaboration
Creativity
Communication
Students will: make mistakes, backtrack, try again to work towards success!

Why incorporate Breakout EDU?

Fun
Adaptable to any subject area
Promotes collaboration and team-building
Develops problem-solving and critical thinking skills
Enhance communication skills
Challenges students to persevere
Builds inference skills
Students learn to work under pressure
Student-centered
Inquiry-based learning
 Breakout EDU Box + Romeo and Juliet Study Guide
Connection to IA/Common Core
21.9-12.ES.1 : Communicate and work productively with others, incorporating different
perspectives and cross cultural understanding, to increase innovation and the quality of work.
21.9-12.ES.2 : Adapt to various roles and responsibilities and work flexibly in climates of
ambiguity and changing priorities.
21.9-12.ES.3 : Demonstrate leadership skills, integrity, ethical behavior, and social responsibility
while collaborating to achieve common goals.

Objective: The Breakout EDU Romeo and Juliet Study Guide is to provide students with an interactive
and different way to study for their test. The students are not just filling out a worksheet, but actively
being involved in applying their knowledge to solving problems and working together for one ultimate
goal of breaking out. The Breakout EDU Romeo and Juliet Study Guide will be used as an assessment
tool of what students retained from reading, analyzing, and discussing Romeo and Juliet.

Breakout EDU Romeo and Juliet Study Guide Goals

The students will:
apply knowledge of Romeo and Juliet to solving the complex problems by using critical thinking
skills
collaborate with their classmates, while developing teamwork skills and involving every student
within the participation
use this study guide, meaning the information within the Breakout EDU Box will be on their test
ultimately breakout of the Breakout EDU Box after solving the clues within the class period

Essential and Topical Question(s)

The unit main essential questions:
1. In a culture where we are bombarded with other people trying to define us, how do we make
decisions for ourselves?
2. Should people sacrifice freedom in the interest of security? Why or why not?
3. How does literature reveal the values of a given culture or time period?
4. What does it mean to be an insider or an outsider?

Possible Misconceptions / Probable Difficulties

The students may:
struggle working together in an effective way, which is okay because a goal of this lesson is to
strengthen their collaboration/teamwork skills
become frustrated when trying to solve the problems, which is okay because I do not want this to
be an easy lesson; I want them to be challenged
become stuck/stumped when trying to solve problems, which is okay because again, I do not
want this to be an easy lesson; I want them to be challenged
not breakout within the class period time
Word Lock (5 letter)
Clue: The difference between love story
and tragedy with an image of Romeo dead
and Juliet killing herself.
Answer: DEATH

Three-Digit Lock
Clue: These violent delights have violent ends
Answer: Act 2, Scene 6, Line 9 = 2-6-9

Directional Lock
Clue: Strips of
paper stating I
killed Tybalt, I
killed Lady
Montague, I
killed Juliet, and
I killed
Mercutio and a
hidden paper with
arrows by the
answers of the
statements.
Answer: The
order in which the deaths of the characters were announced in the play: Tybalt kills
Mercutio (DOWN), Romeo kills Tybalt (UP), Juliet commits suicide (LEFT), and Lady
Montague commits suicide (RIGHT).
 Four-Digit Lock
Clue: These events in order, where
they took place, will help you with a
sheet of statements.
Answer: Act 1 had 4 statements, Act 2
had 2 statements, Act 3 had 4
statements, and Act 4 had 3 statements;
Code 4-2-4-3