Ask all children to move around the classroom space, quietly muttering their line. When introducing dialogue, print off dialogue cards and give each child one card. Introduce some of the key dialogue spoken by the play’s characters in Shakespeare’s original text.
Success criteria should include clear storytelling of the rivalry between the teams and the burgeoning relationship between Romeo and Juliet (and how this made the other players feel). Commentaries and interviews could be recorded and edited in iMovie or Windows MovieMaker for video interviews and in audio editing software such as audacity for audio only work. They could then create and edit scriptsįor post-match interviews with key players such as Romeo, Juliet, the nurse, Romeo’s best friend (who could be called Mercutio as in the original text) and the Capulet red-card offender (perhaps Tybalt).
How are they treated in school the next day? Will they be able to date each other without any further problems?Ĭhildren could write their own match commentary for the Capulet/ Montague football game. Is this story a tragedy? If not, what genre best describes it? What themes of the original Shakespeare story are retained? Do you like that Romeo and Juliet have a romantic ‘happy ending’ in this story as opposed to the Shakespeare tragedy? Do you think that Montague High and Capulet Academy will maintain their peace?Ĭhildren could write a ‘sequel’ story or diary entry for the retelling’s Romeo and/ or Juliet after their fateful kiss on the sidelines. They could answer questions such as: Shakespeare’s original story is a tragedy. Children could research the original plot of the Shakespeare tragedy and spot similarities and differences between the two texts. This is a radically different and very light-hearted take on theoriginal Shakespeare story.
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