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?

In 1808, their friend, the romantic poet clemens brentano, asked them to collect all types of folk tales so he could use them in a book of literary fairy tales. in 1810, they sent him fifty-four texts, which they fortunately copied. fortunately, because brentano then lost the manuscript in the ölenberg monastery in alsace and never used the grimms’ texts. when they realized that brentano was not going to use the tales, they decided, upon the advice of another romantic writer and mutual friend, achim von arnim, to publish their collection. it had grown to eighty-six tales, which they published in 1812, and then another seventy, which they published in 1815. –“how the grimm brothers saved the fairy tale,” jack zipes what structural technique does the writer use in this passage? the writer describes events in chronological order. the writer describes events in their order of importance. the writer provides a central idea and then lists examples. the writer shows how the grimms made mistakes and then solved them.