Wow! This is the latest in the week the blog assignment has ever been posted. Instead of being due on Saturday, you have until Tuesday, May 17 to complete your post.
Throughout the year we have focused on different literary elements in each unit. Although conflict is present within every work we've studied, it is most prevalent and most crucial to the plot and characters in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Your essay for this unit will involve both Shakespeare's use of language and how conflict is created within the play.
Throughout the play, characters struggle with conflict on many different levels. The title teenagers face their own internal conflicts, are involved with conflicts with other characters, and are essentially in conflict with the society of which they live. Identify one specific conflict at work in Romeo and Juliet and describe its importance to the central themes of the play and how it extends to your life, our society, or to people important to you.
Write two complete, thoughtful paragraphs for this post. The first should identify a specific conflict in the play: accurately paraphrase or quote the play and describe the type of conflict. Then describe this conflict's importance and how it develops central themes of the play.
In the second paragraph, discuss how this type of conflict is present in your life or in the lives of people important to you or how it is present in our society. What is the significance of conflict? How does conflict link to meaning in your life? How do you or people in general deal with conflict? Be thoughtful and creative in addressing these questions.
Considering these ideas will serve as prewriting material for your final essay for 9th grade Honors English.
Due Tuesday, May 17.
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