Teaching Romeo and Juliet | Daily Lessons

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: In this Daily Lesson, students will consider the conflicts revealed in the Act I prologue such as the feud between families, the doomed love of the title characters, etc.

1) 1) Small Group Activity: Students will identify a conflict apparent in the Act I prologue. Students will share their discoveries with the class, using specific examples from the prologue to support their ideas. (read more)