Day Two. Act II Day Two: Lesson Overview Bell Ringer/Flashback Grammar **Scheduling (A) Review Figurative Language Activity Skill Focus: Oxymoron Read.

Day Two

Act II Day Two: Lesson Overview

Bell Ringer/FlashbackGrammar**Scheduling (A)Review Figurative Language ActivitySkill Focus: OxymoronRead Romeo and Juliet Act II Scenes iii & ivExit Slip: Oxymoron Practice

Bell Ringer #8: (A) 2/3 & (B) 2/8)

Identify THREE TYPES of figurative language we studied today.

Write TWO SENTENCES using figurative language.

Explain ONE EXAMPLE of dramatic irony from the play thus far.

Grammar #7: Capitalization Rules

Rule # 5: Capitalize all abbreviations of words that would be capitalized if spelled out.Example: Mr. Kearl; Dr. Harrison; Phoneix, AZ; Feb.3

Rule #6: Capitalize the first word in sentences, quotations, most lines of poetry, and all important words in titles.Example: The poet Emerson said, “Hitch your wagon to a star.” The Miracle Worker was a play about Helen Keller.

Rule #7: Capitalize the first word in each entry of an outline and all important words in the greeting of a letter. In the closing of a letter, capitalize only the first word of the phrase.Example: Origin of volcanoes A. Magma formation Dear Gabriella, Sincerely yours,

Grammar #7

Capitalize each sentence correctly [be sure to underline what you change]. You must write out the sentence.

1. dr. Harrison me mr. Speilman in Phoenix, az, on aug. 3.

2. The poem paul revere’s ride begins, “on the eighteenth of april in seventy-five.”

3. yours very truly,

Figurative Language from Act II scene ii

1. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon2. My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words of thy

tongue’s uttering, yet I know the sound3. With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls4. There lies more peril in thine eyes than twenty of their

swords5. I have night’s cloak to hide me from their eyes6. It is too rash…like the lightning which doth cease to be

ere one can say it lightens7. This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, may

prove a beauteous flower8. My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep9. Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,

but love from love toward school with heavy looks

Skill Focus/Reading

Skill Focus: Oxymoron

An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms.

Literary oxymorons are used to reveal a paradox or contradiction.

Examples:pretty ugly freezer burn rolling stop same difference

Roles for Today: Act II Scenes iii & iv(p. 945)

Montagues:◦ Romeo: ◦ Benvolio: ◦ Mercutio:

Capulet:

Other:◦ Nurse: ◦ Peter: ◦ Friar Laurence:

Act II Scene iii

1. What has Friar Laurence been out gathering in his basket?

 2. When Friar Laurence sees Romeo, what comment does Friar Laurence make about seeing Romeo so early in the morning?

 3. What does Friar Laurence mean when he says to Romeo, “Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes?

 4. Friar Laurence agrees to perform the marriage ceremony for Romeo and Juliet for what reason?

Act II Scene iv

1. According to Mercutio and Benvolio, what continues to bother Romeo?

2. Who has challenged Romeo to a duel, and why?

3. How does Mercutio tease the Nurse?4. What message does Romeo give to the

Nurse for Juliet?5. Make a prediction about the next scenes:

What will happen when the Nurse gives Juliet the message? Will the couple marry?

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE PRACTICE

1.

She is as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

2.

He is a walking encyclopedia of information.

3.

My teacher is so old she knew Shakespeare personally.

4.

The radio stopped singing and continued to stare at me.

5.

They were alone together.

6.

Trees were dancing with the wind.

7.

He never says anything. He just sits there like a bump on a log.

8.

Miss Kramek tried to cook meat last night. She couldn’t. It had freezer burn.

9.

My sister wears so much make up that she weighs 50 pounds more when she has it on!

10.

Aladdin was considered a diamond in the rough.

Exit Slip:

1. Define oxymoron and use the passage below to answer 2 & 3.

When Romeo sees that the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues has reignited, he says:

Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love.Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,O anything of nothing first created!O heavy lightness, serious vanity,Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!This love feel I, that feel no love in this.

2. Identify and write at least three examples of oxymorons in the passage above.

3. Explain how the feud between the families shows both love and hatred.