Lesson Plan

Day: Friday Date: 20/10/2017 Time: 8:55-10:00 Year: 10 General

Learning Area: English Topic: Tragedy: Romeo & Juliet (7)
Curriculum content description: Analyse and evaluate how people, cultures, places, events,
objects and concepts are represented in texts, including media texts, through language, structural
and/or visual choices (ACELY1749) Evaluate the social, moral and ethical positions represented in
texts (ACELT1812) Identify, explain and discuss how narrative viewpoint, structure, characterisation and
devices including analogy and satire shape different interpretations and responses to a text
(ACELT1642) Analyse and evaluate text structures and language features of literary texts and make
relevant thematic and intertextual connections with other texts (ACELT1774)
Students prior knowledge and experience:
- Students have completed a jigsaw activity on Romeos character in Act 2, Scene 2.
- Students have also completed a short answer response (SAR) on the development of Romeo up
to this point.
Learning purpose:
- To encourage a deeper engagement with the text
- To look at language techniques used in the play
- Identify conventions that help to characterise particular characters
Learning objectives: Evaluation:
On completion of this lesson, students will be - Students will be able to correctly recount
able to: the events of Act 3, Scene 1 and provide a
- Explain Act 3, Scene 1s events confidently. summary of no more than 60 words.
- Identify features of language that demonstrate
a selected character
- Analyse the idea of tragedy at this point in the
play and identify the appropriate tragic
conventions.
Preparation and Resources:
- A copy of the play
- Completed homework (Act 3, Scene 1)

Catering for diversity:

- This lesson will focus around multiple discussions in small groups as well as the whole class
- There will also be a 60-word summary of the events of the act in the play thereby providing a
variety of activities for a range of learning styles.
Timing: Learning Experiences:
Introduction:
- Check students homework

Part One:
- Split class into groups of 4
- Students will choose who is A, B, B, and C
- Each group member chooses a character to discuss from Act three, Scene one
focussing specifically on characterisation (actions, words spoken and what ideas
come from those words to tell us about the characters in the scene.
- A students move anticlockwise to the next group, Cs move clockwise to the next
group, and the two Bs stay at the base waiting for the next group to come and
discuss what they have come up with based on their chosen characters
Part Two:
- Students will return to their desks and write a summary of Act three, Scene one
that is no more than 60 words- in silence.
Part Three:
- Tragedy. What is it at this point (students must provide examples from the text to
support their ideas)
- Make reference to the tragic conventions used at this point with examples from the
text on this.

Lesson Evaluation:
(Reflect on the lesson. What worked? What did not work? What would you change? Why? How?)