Shakespeare, William, Emily Hutchinson and Karen Loccisano. Romeo & Juliet. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Globe Fearon, 1996. Print.
This is the familiar story of ill-fated star crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, but instead of it being written in the Elizabethan, it has been modernized and translated for students with reading difficulties. It does lose the iambic pentameter, but the main story is still there and there is a good bit of retained rhyme scheme. Some of the names have been slightly modernized, such as “Abraham” from “Abram,” but Romeo is still Romeo, Juliet is still Juliet, and they both still kill themselves in the end.
The student had a blast reading this last year, and I hope to either add more plays or at least utilize readers theater more. One really great activity was the mask project that my mentor told me about. For the costume ball we had students either go buy a mask (they were not obligated to do this) or take a paper mask from us and decorate it. Some student, mostly girls; but not always, really cut lose and came up with some great masks. I also provided cookies that day!
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