Romeo and Juliet - GCSE Unit of Work

Romeo and Juliet - GCSE Unit of Work

‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a GCSE unit of work containing a 259-slide PowerPoint, 50 worksheets and a 32 lesson unit overview. This engaging unit explores the play act by act and scene by scene, analysing its plot, characters, themes, language and historical context through a range of learning activities.

These GCSE Romeo and Juliet teaching resources include planning (a 32 lesson unit of work overview), a fully editable PowerPoint teaching resource and 50 accompanying PDF worksheets.

Below are examples of the activities contained in the lessons.

• Historical / social / literary context - a biography of Shakespeare’s life and the Elizabethan theatre

• Scene by scene activities to consolidate understanding

• Comprehension questions to assess students’ knowledge of plot, character, language, context and themes

• Close analysis of the characters of Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio and Tybalt

• Exploration of key themes - love, hate, fate, loyalty

• The social and historical context of Romeo and Juliet and the play’s representation of women

• Developing key reading skills - inference and deduction

• Using P.E.T.E.R. Point/Evidence/Technique/Explain/Reader to write an effective GCSE exam essay

• Detailed analysis of Shakespeare’s language, key quotes and Romeo and Juliet’s soliloquies and monologues

• How Shakespeare uses tension and suspense in Romeo and Juliet

• Role play - hot-seating activities

• Understanding key characters through empathy writing tasks

• Video links to help the teaching and learning of key scene