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10 Activities for Teaching Romeo and Juliet
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Romeo and Juliet is one of those classic pieces of literature I think everyone has read. Even students who haven’t read the Shakespeare play have probably heard of the story or will relate to the plot as it has been retold in various films and literature. If you need some fresh ideas before you start this unit, read on.
1. Relatable Bell Ringers
If you’re going to focus on a Shakespeare play, you must go all in. Immersing students into a unit from start to finish is such a perfect way to help students understand a topic in-depth. Start off each class with these Shakespeare Bell Ringers . Each one includes a famous Shakespearean quote and a quick writing prompt. Students will explore various writing styles based on the quote.
2. Character Focus
Help your students identify and organize characters with these graphic organizers . This resource has two sets for almost every character in the play. Students will identify characters as round or flat, static or dynamic, and other basic qualities. This will also require them to provide textual evidence. The second organizer focuses on tracing emotions and motivations throughout the play. It’s a creative way for students to organize the play’s characters and is also a great resource for ESL students and struggling readers.
3. Get Interactive
I can remember interactive notebooks becoming all the rage. And while the paper notebooks are creative, a motivator for some students, and it’s generally pretty easy to put an interactive spin on old ideas already at hand. Having a digital version is just one more layer to add something unique to the interactive notebook. My digital notebook resource can work as its own unit and includes analysis activities covering characters, symbols, major events, writing tasks, and response questions. Digital notebooks are great for classrooms trying to limit paper use, use more technology, prepare students for tech demands, and for any classes that need to work with mobile options.
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4. Engaging Writing Tasks
Help students understand and analyze the play by giving them unique writing assignments. Have students explore different writing styles, analyze universal themes, and study character development. My Writing Tasks resource does all this and more. Each act has its own unique writing assignment, and I’ve included brainstorming organizers for each. You’ll be able to use this with differentiated instruction, and there are several additional resources and organizers included.
5. Read “Cloze”ly
Prep passages for students to summarize to help them understand events from the play. This is an ideal activity for review, comprehension, or even assessment. Cloze reading is an ideal way to help students understand what is happening. Cut your prep time down by using this resource, with 6 passages ready to use AND written in modern-day English. Use as an individual assignment or collaborative activity.
6. Use Office Supplies
Increase student engagement with hands-on activities using sticky notes. You can use various colors to coordinate different aspects of study (literary elements, major events, character development, etc). It’s an easy and quick way for students to organize thoughts and notes, and the bits of information can be manipulated and moved around for different assignments. Students can gather relevant information for various essays, or can organize their sticky notes in a way that makes sense to them (by topic, or chronologically, as an example). Check out my Sticky Note Literary Analysis activity that includes 12 sticky note organizers.
7. Make Use of Bookmarks
There are many creative avenues when it comes to bookmarks. Have an activity where students pick a favorite quote, draw a scene, or draw what they know about the play prior to reading (they can use the back to draw after reading the play). Consider a foldable version like this one where you can jam-pack a variety of questions, vocabulary, literary analysis and more. These are foldable, interactive, fun, engaging - and it saves you time passing out one activity to be used throughout the play.
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8. Plan an Escape
Escape rooms live up to the hype. Challenge your students with a fun and engaging review escape challenge. Have students work together in groups to complete collaboratively and spark authentic discussion. This escape room activity includes 40 timeline events to sort from the play correctly.
9. Don’t Forget Vocabulary
Vocabulary is an important aspect of understanding any work, but Shakespeare is on a whole other level. In addition to reading an older version of English in poetic form, students must grasp key vocabulary to understand the play more deeply. Engage your students with hands-on activities to learn vocabulary, whether that be through graphic organizers, visual dictionaries, or word puzzles. Check out my ready-to-print vocabulary packet that includes word lists, puzzles, organizers and quizzes for the entire play.
10. Practice Annotations
Start at the very beginning with an engaging activity for the prologue. This will allow students to explore the Shakespearean language and the set-up to the drama that is Romeo and Juliet’s tragedy. Using this resource , students will read and annotate the prologue, be introduced to Elizabethan English, and have context and background information before reading the play. Students then will rewrite the prologue in modern-day English following the same sonnet form. I love having students explore language, and this activity fits perfectly into the unit.
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If you’re starting fresh with activities to fill a unit, or you’re looking to refresh your tried-and-true activities, check out my 5-week unit plan for Romeo and Juliet here . It’s full of goodies including a pacing guide, pre-reading activities, bookmarks, vocabulary, passages, writing tasks, essays, review activities, and more.
Put a new spin on the classic tragedy by refreshing your activities and finding new ways to present to students. Just a few simple updates and changes can keep students engaged and help them relate to the material. I love seeing what others do in their classrooms, so please share your favorite ideas in the comments below.
13 easy, engaging lessons for Romeo and Juliet
by mindroar | Aug 22, 2021 | blog | 0 comments
Looking for lessons for Romeo and Juliet ? Are you teaching Romeo and Juliet in high school and desperately looking for activities and resources for the Shakespearean tragedy? Check out these 12 Romeo and Juliet teaching resources.
Pre-reading lessons
1. shakespearean insult lesson.
If your students are unfamiliar with English from the Elizabethan era, it can be a steep learning curve. And it can make it difficult to teach Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet .
Students often feel intimidated by the language and find it hard to get into. And if you’re teaching one of Shakespeare’s plays for the first time, you can feel intimidated yourself. I know I was when I first started!
A great way to overcome this fear factor is to have some fun activities for teaching Shakespearean language and the specific play you will be teaching.
One of my favorite ways to start any unit about Shakespeare is by having a Shakespearean Insult Lesson (see h ere for my blog post about it and here for my digital and in-class lesson ).
Not only is the Shakespearean insult lesson lots of fun, but it also helps reduce the fear factor of Shakespearean language.
2. Watch a video about Shakespeare and his plays
Another great way to introduce students to Shakespeare and his plays is to watch a short video about Shakespeare’s life and his tragedies.
There are heaps of videos around, but some of my favorites are the Crash Course videos: this one , which is all about Shakespeare’s life, and this one , which is about Shakespeare’s tragedies.
Both videos are short and sweet, less than fifteen minutes. The video about Shakespeare’s tragedies covers King Lear in more depth, so you can also stop the video at about eight minutes and fifteen seconds if you’re short on time.
These are also great activities to set as homework because they are short and easy to get into. Plus, if you had to choose between a video and solving algebraic equations, which would you choose?
The videos are funny and engaging, and they use illustration, a presenter, and quotes to delve deeper into Shakespeare’s life and plays. That series also has a video about Shakespeare’s comedies, just in case you teach any of those too.
If you’re looking for a worksheet to go with the videos, check out our Shakespeare life and plays bundle on TPT.

While reading lessons
Now, once you’ve introduced Shakespeare, gotten your student more comfortable with his language, and begun reading Romeo and Juliet , you’ll probably be wondering what other lessons for Romeo and Juliet you can use in class.
1. Romeo and Juliet Crash Course Literature videos
The Crash Course Literature series also has two videos specifically about Romeo and Juliet . Again, I rate these highly as they’re short, entertaining, and cover important content such as plot, characters, and themes.
If you’re looking for worksheets for these, we have some too. Check out the Romeo and Juliet mini bundle , which has worksheets for both of the videos.
Be warned that the videos do have plot spoilers though, so if your students don’t already realize that R+J die, you may want to hold off until you’ve read the whole play.
2. Romeo and Juliet Text Messaging Activity
This great lesson by The English Teacher’s Pet asks students to choose a scene from the play and recreate the scene through text messages on Romeo’s phone. And the best part? This lesson plan for Romeo and Juliet is free.
This Romeo and Juliet activity includes an explanation of the activity and a model answer, an evaluation sheet, and a text-message printable worksheet for students to write on.
3. Read some comics
These comics by David Rickert give an introduction to the main events of each act and have activities that explain an important concept or literary device.
Using comics is a great way to take away that fear that students often have of not understanding Shakespearean language. As an added bonus, the visuals in comics help with comprehension.
4. Learn about the characters using body biographies
These body biographies by Danielle Knight of Study All Knight are another great lesson for Romeo and Juliet . In the activity, students analyze characters from the play in an engaging way. In completing the projects, students have to:
- find direct quotes
- analyze how the character has changed (or stayed the same)
- explore the characters’ inner thoughts/feelings
- analyze the characters’ values and beliefs
- explore the characters’ strengths/weaknesses
- identify the characters’ goal/s in the play
- describe what the character/s look like
- choose the characters’ best accomplishment/s
- identify symbols
- and describe the characters’ background, family, personality, and conflict
5. Using Romeo and Juliet to learn how to integrate quotes and paraphrasing in literary analysis
This lesson helps students understand how to quote and paraphrase in literary analysis using Romeo and Juliet quotes. Included in the lesson, useable in both print and digital, are:
- a scaffolded introduction with examples of how to integrate quotes
- independent practice with rubrics
- suggested answers
- an editable homework task and quiz
- bellringers for the play
6. Romeo and Juliet photo booth printable props
This Romeo and Juliet activity would be a great way to get students to revise the play as they go. At the end of each scene, students could do a fun comic-book style photo-booth scene summary that they act out, write dialogue for, and then print and put in a comic-book template .
It would not only be fun, but it would also help students identify the important elements of each scene and remember what happened in the plot of the play.
After reading lessons
So you’ve finished reading or watching Romeo and Juliet , and now you come to the pointy end where you need to review before an assessment task. These great Romeo and Juliet review activities are sure to be a hit with your students.
1. Digital escape room review
This digital escape room review by Gamewise is a great no-prep escape room that is paperless and completely online. You just buy the game, give students the link and password, and set them loose.
Even better, for students to get to the completion page, they need to answer all of the questions correctly.
The game covers topics such as:
- the plot of the play
- the main characters in the play
- language and technique analysis
- close reading of Romeo’s soliloquy in the tomb
2. Escape room review for Romeo and Juliet
If you prefer your students to do a paper-based escape room, this one by Nouvelle ELA can be used as an escape room with clues hidden around the room. Or it can be used as a breakout box, with students remaining in their desks to complete the tasks. It covers elements such as:
- figurative language
- plus, it can be increased in difficulty using ‘You’ve been poisoned’ cards
Romeo and Juliet movie lesson plans
If your students are going to watch a video version of the play, this lesson for Romeo and Juliet helps students compare the Baz Luhrman movie adaptation to the play.
This film to play comparison by Visual Thinking Classroom is a great Romeo and Juliet movie lesson plan because it includes a no-prep instructional slide deck, as well as scaffolding to help students compare the original play to the Baz Luhrman adaptation.
The Romeo and Juliet movie lesson plan also helps students focus on important elements such as characters, story elements, and important moments in the play.
Romeo and Juliet entire unit lesson plans
Now, maybe you’ve read through all of the Romeo and Juliet lesson plans so far, but what you’re really after are Romeo and Juliet unit lesson plans for a whole unit instead of individual lessons. If so, keep reading.
1. Laura Randazzo’s Romeo and Juliet unit lesson plans
This five-week Romeo and Juliet unit of lesson plans contains the following:
- a calendar with suggested pacing and activities
- scene-by-scene study questions in both PDF and Google Drive versions
- life in Elizabethan England team speech activity including many topics and a rubric
- a lecture and craft activity about Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
- a Shakespearean comedy presentation about puns and oxymorons
- a presentation about the power of tone and line delivery with interactive activities for 27 students
- Shakespearean sonnet lecture and creative writing activity
- one-question quizzes to hold students accountable for reading
- Shakespearean slam contest
- art assignment to illustrate Mercutio’s Act 1, Scene 4 monologue
- an Act 2 prologue activity
- plot timeline to review play’s chronology
- quote review challenge
- 50-question exam using matching, true/false and quote identification
- in-class end-of-unit essay prompts
2. The Daring English Teacher’s Romeo and Juliet Teaching Bundle
This final resource with lessons for Romeo and Juliet is this differentiated teaching bundle by The Daring English Teacher. This bundle includes writing prompts, cloze activities, character analysis, and vocabulary.
But one of the best things about this product is that it is easy to differentiate – the one unit of work enables you to run Romeo and Juliet ESL lessons but can also be adapted to suit other learners too.
Want more English lesson and resource ideas?
Hopefully, the resources listed above have been helpful for your lesson plans for Romeo and Juliet. If you are an English teacher, you may be interested in my other blog posts with lesson ideas and resources for other texts, including:
- 12 excellent teaching resources for Macbeth – make Macbeth easy
- Teaching Lord of the Flies: 12 awesome activities & wonderful worksheets
- How to improve research skills when you have NO time
- 5 awesome free resources to teach Shakespeare
- Fun, engaging, and easy Shakespearean insults lesson you have to try
- 9 quick and easy study skills lesson plans for high school
Tragic Love: Introducing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

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This pre-reading lesson helps students expand their knowledge of Shakespeare and build an understanding of Romeo and Juliet by connecting the summary of the play to their everyday lives as teenagers. Students also explore the definition of tragedy and how "tragic love" is ingrained in the lives of teenagers from all cultures. The lesson helps students build background knowledge of the play, the genre of tragedy, and related terms and concepts, creating a context in which students can better understand and relate to the Shakespearean text.
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Story Map : This interactive is designed to assist students in prewriting and postreading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution.
From Theory to Practice
In her English Journal column "Taking Time: Beyond Memorization: Using Drama to Promote Thinking," Tonya Perry notes that "students in the classroom can participate in the performance of a dramatic text . . . with little understanding of the literature" (121). Because reading and performing drama is inherently interactive, teachers can mistakenly observe that students understand a play, feeling that "the dramatic text [seems] to explain itself" (121). Perry advocates for building prior knowledge and establishing ground for personal connections in drama through drama, as presented in this lesson. Students engage in "explanatory drama" as they use a skit to deepen their understanding of the central concept of tragic love. Further Reading
Common Core Standards
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NCTE/IRA National Standards for the English Language Arts
- 1. Students read a wide range of print and nonprint texts to build an understanding of texts, of themselves, and of the cultures of the United States and the world; to acquire new information; to respond to the needs and demands of society and the workplace; and for personal fulfillment. Among these texts are fiction and nonfiction, classic and contemporary works.
- 2. Students read a wide range of literature from many periods in many genres to build an understanding of the many dimensions (e.g., philosophical, ethical, aesthetic) of human experience.
- 3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).
- 10. Students whose first language is not English make use of their first language to develop competency in the English language arts and to develop understanding of content across the curriculum.
- 11. Students participate as knowledgeable, reflective, creative, and critical members of a variety of literacy communities.
Materials and Technology
- Computer and LCD projector
- Tragic Love: An Introduction to Romeo and Juliet PowerPoint Presentation and notes
- News articles about a recent tragedy from a print source
- Examples of tragedy from popular culture (see Session Two )
- Assessment Questionnaire (for use as pre- and post- assessment)
- Romeo and Juliet Major Character List
- Tragic Love: An Introduction to Romeo and Juliet Notes (cloze notes to accompany the PowerPoint presentation)
- Tragic Love Dialogue Assignment
- Tragic Love Dialogue: A Tale of Litigious Woe
Preparation
- Review a summary of Romeo and Juliet . You can use this basic summary and additional information to enhance students' understanding of the play.
- Set up the computer and projector for showing a PowerPoint presentation.
- Preview the Tragic Love: An Introduction to Romeo and Juliet PowerPoint Presentation and plan how you will use the notes and other resources to elaborate on the presentation.
- Prepare copies of necessary handouts.
- Test the Story Map interactive on student computers.
- (Optional) Print copies of news articles about a recent tragedy to use as an example to stimulate further discussion.
Student Objectives
Students will
- define tragedy and give examples from media and popular culture.
- evaluate the relevance of the theme "tragic love" in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to the lives of teenagers.
- become familiar with the themes and characters in Romeo and Juliet prior to reading the play.
Session One
- Pre-assess students' knowledge and opinions of Romeo and Juliet using the Assessment Questionnaire .
- Review the answers students gave for the questionnaire by having two or three students share their responses for each question. Explain that you will discuss the ideas from the questionnaire as you view a PowerPoint presentation about the play.
- Hand out the cloze notes for the Tragic Love: An Introduction to Romeo and Juliet PowerPoint Presentation and the Romeo and Juliet Major Character List . Students should use the cloze notes handout to take notes during the presentation.
- View the setting and list of characters on slides 2 and 3.
- Read aloud the names of the characters, and have the students repeat the names to help them get used to reading and saying the names aloud.
- View Part I of the PowerPoint: the summary of Romeo and Juliet . Pause frequently to check for understanding and to allow students to ask questions.
- You may wish to explain that audiences in the Shakespearean era typically came to plays already knowing the plot; knowing the plot ahead of time is not a "spolier" as we consider it today.
- Have you ever had an experience like Romeo's or Juliet's?
- Have you ever been in love?
- Do you think teenagers fall in love easily? Why or why not?
- What might happen when teenagers fall in love?
- Have students use the last few minutes of class to write down their individual responses to the questions "Why do we read Romeo and Juliet today?" and "How does the story connect to the lives of teenagers today?" If necessary, have students complete the assignment for homework.
Session Two
- Review and discuss the summary of Romeo and Juliet from the Tragic Love: An Introduction to Romeo and Juliet PowerPoint Presentation .
- Discuss students' responses to the questions: "Why do we read Romeo and Juliet today?" and "How does the story connect to the lives of teenagers today?"
- Continue viewing the PowerPoint presentation, starting with Part II: TRAGEDY (slide 9).
- As you go through the slides in this section, facilitate a short, student-led discussion of everyday tragedies people experience. Examples may include natural disasters such as hurricanes or tornadoes, car accidents, natural deaths, tragic deaths such as that of Latina pop singer Selena, and so on (slide 10). You can also read and discuss the article about a local tragedy that you printed.
- As a class, discuss the question: How does tragedy affect people's lives?
- When you come to the final slide (titled: Tragic Love?), have students take a few minutes to define tragic love and write down the responses in their notes.
- James Cameron's Titanic
- With Titanic , play Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" to show a "tragic love" song.
- Robert Zemeckis' Forrest Gump
- BBC News Article: "Italian dies in ‘Romeo' tragedy"
- '"The tragic love story of alma reed & Felipe Carrillo" by Ruth Ross-Merrimer
Sessions Three and Four
- Have students take the Tragic Love: An Introduction to Romeo and Juliet Assessment Questionnaire again to assess how much their background knowledge and opinions of the play have improved and changed.
- Place students in pairs, and hand out the Tragic Love Dialogue Assignment to each pair. Explain that they will work together, following the instructions on the assignment sheet, to create a dialogue that demonstrates their understanding of tragic love. Encourage pairs to be creative with their characters and scenario; in other words, they should not rewrite Romeo and Juliet . Go over the rubric at the bottom of the page so they are aware of the criteria on which they will be assessed. Review the Tragic Love: A Tale of Litigious Woe dialogue sample with students and give them time to ask any questions they may have about the assignment.
- Allow students to work on their dialogues for the remainder of the session and the beginning of the next session, using the Story Map interactive if you prefer. You may give students additional time if needed.
- After students have completed their dialogues, have each pair present its dialogue to the class.
- Research "tragic love" stories/legends from cultures around the world. Present the findings in a short play performed for the class.
- Write a journal entry explaining the effects of tragedy that you have experienced or seen in your life.
- Draw on the tiered focused/close reading assignments from Chapter 2, "Act 1: Lessons, Handouts, and Assessments," of Teaching Romeo and Juliet: A Differentiated Approach (NCTE 2007).
- Use these ReadWriteThink lessons to continue study of Romeo and Juliet : Star-Crossed Lovers Online: Romeo and Juliet for a Digital Age , Book Report Alternative: Characters for Hire! Studying Character in Drama , and Happily Ever After? Exploring Character, Conflict, and Plot in Dramatic Tragedy .
Student Assessment / Reflections
- Ask students to compare their knowledge of the play as demonstrated on the pre- and post- assessments.
- Use the rubric included in the Tragic Love Dialogue Assignment to assess students’ understanding of the concept of tragic love.
- Throughout the reading of the play, ask students to reflect and reconnect to the work in this lesson to guide and clarify their responses to the text.
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This Romeo and Juliet Anticipation Guide is a great way to get your students excited to read! The anticipation guide includes 10 statements related to the play's themes and conflicts for students to thoughtfully consider. After reading each statement, students will mark 'agree' or 'disagree' and give a supporting reason.
This Romeo and Juliet Anticipation Guide is a great way to get your students excited to read! The anticipation guide includes 10 statements related to the play's themes and conflicts for students to thoughtfully consider. After reading each statement, students will mark 'agree' or 'disagree' and give a supporting reason.
Romeo and Juliet Anticipation Guide For each of the following statements check off whether you agree or disagree with each one. Statement Agree Disagree 1. Teens should remain loyal to their parents no matter what. 2. Love is only worthwhile if it is difficult 3. Old grudges should always be forgiven. 4. Fate is inevitable. 5.
Anticipation Guide Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare PURPOSE OF THE STRATEGY Anticipation guides activate students’ schema and help them become emotionally involved with a text. This pre-reading strategy, sometimes called “reaction guides” or “prediction guides,” is designed to prepare students to read a text, in this case Romeo and
It’s full of goodies including a pacing guide, pre-reading activities, bookmarks, vocabulary, passages, writing tasks, essays, review activities, and more. Put a new spin on the classic tragedy by refreshing your activities and finding new ways to present to students.
Anticipation Guide—Romeo and Juliet Rate all of the following on a scale from 1 to 5: 1 being strongly disagree, 2 being somewhat disagree, 3 being neutral/not sure, 4 being somewhat agree, and 5 being strongly agree.
Check out these 12 Romeo and Juliet teaching resources. Pre-reading lessons 1. Shakespearean insult lesson If your students are unfamiliar with English from the Elizabethan era, it can be a steep learning curve. And it can make it difficult to teach Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
This pre-reading lesson helps students expand their knowledge of Shakespeare and build an understanding of Romeo and Juliet by connecting the summary of the play to their everyday lives as teenagers. Students also explore the definition of tragedy and how "tragic love" is ingrained in the lives of teenagers from all cultures.
Anticipation Guide—Romeo and Juliet Rate all of the following on a scale from 1 to 5: 1 being strongly disagree, 2 being somewhat disagree, 3 being neutral/not sure, 4 being somewhat agree, and 5 being strongly agree. Then provide a 2-3 sentence explanation defending your position with examples. 1. The punishment for murder should always be ...