Help with romeo and juliet What did you like about the play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare? What did you not like? What about the two film renditions, Zefirelli’s “Romeo and Juliet” from 1968 and the one directed by Baz Luhrmann (1996)? What did you like and not like about each?

If you could change the play’s ending, would you do that and if so, how?

Do you think you have learned more facts or more vocabulary during this unit? Explain.

Do you feel you have improved any reading skills during this unit? Examples of reading skills: skimming, scanning, (reading for) language analysis, (reading for) understanding effects.

Did you have any problems or difficulties and how did you solve them?

Did this unit give you any new ideas about yourself? Did you discover something new about yourself by completing this unit?

If you could change something about the unit, what would it be? Any new ideas for related activities?

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant