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Romeo and Juliet

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Courting Via Text Message

Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet are having difficulty seeing each other in person because their families are enemies. Romeo and Juliet, nevertheless, have found an ingenious way of communicating with each other: text messaging! Due to a careless moment, however, Romeo's cell phone was destroyed when he dropped it on Verona’s cobblestone streets. Your job is to recreate the text messages that were lost from Romeo's phone.

Assignment Working individually, completely recreate a scene in the play as it would be communicated through text messaging. Be sure to do the following:

1. Maintain Shakespeare's meaning. Don't lose important details in translation. 2. Capture the critical plot developments from the scene. 3. Capture the character's personalities. 4. Paraphrase some of the important lines from the play in modern day text-language. (Don’t pretend you don’t

speak it every day!) 5. Keep the language school appropriate. However, for this assignment, and this assignment only, text

abbreviations are acceptable. 6. Be sure your text conversation is at least one page in length.

Scene Selection Choose one of the following scenes in the play to recreate in text-language. Be sure to consult the textbook when you write your scene- accuracy is important.

• 1.5 - The Capulet's Party & Romeo and Juliet's first conversation. • 2.2 - The Balcony Scene & the exchange of love vows with a promise to marry. • 2.4 - Romeo with his friends and the nurse establishing a plan for the wedding.

Evaluation Your work will be graded according to:

• Accuracy to the play (keeping facts and details the same without eliminating important information). • Accuracy of your paraphrasing of famous lines (I should be able to recognize several famous lines from your

texting, but they should be transformed into your modern text language, giving Shakespeare’s words a new twist).

• Accuracy of the characters and their personalities.

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Example

Act II, Scene 3 - Romeo discusses marrying Juliet with Friar Laurence.

Romeo: Wuz up?

Friar: Nutten. U?

Romeo: My life is sweet n im in luuuvvvv : )

Friar: yayaya, i kno all bout rosaline.

Romeo: Nah. New babe.

Friar: 4real??!?!?!?

Romeo: True dat. I got it 4 Juliet.

Friar: Ur enemy?

Romeo: No… my luv!

Friar: Young men's luv is in their i's [Translation of Friar Laurence's more famous line: “Young men's love then lies / Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”]

Romeo: She iz my heart n soul. Swear.

Friar: U change ur mind faster den a rapper spits. SMH.

Romeo: Not this time. 4sure.

Friar: i guess it could bring peace to both the fams.

Romeo: So…u'll marry us?!?!?!

Friar: umm ….

Romeo: come on. =)

Friar: k. =/

Romeo: SWEET! Ur awesome! C u this PM 2 tie the knot!!!

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Name ______________________________________________________ Date ______________ Period ______ The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

Courting Via Text Message

Act ___________ Scene _________ (Make sure you label who is saying what.)

 

 

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