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?

Read the passage from the opinion of the court in dred scott v. sandford, written by justice taney. the question then arises, whether the provisions of the constitution, in relation to the personal rights and privileges to which the citizen of a state should be entitled, embraced the negro african race, at that time in this country, or who might afterwards be imported, who had then or should afterwards be made free in any state; and to put it in the power of a single state to make him a citizen of the united states, and endue him with the full rights of citizenship in every other state without their consent? does the constitution of the united states act upon him whenever he shall be made free under the laws of a state, and raised there to the rank of a citizen, and immediately clothe him with all the privileges of a citizen in every other state, and in its own courts? the court thinks the affirmative of these propositions cannot be maintained. and if it cannot, the plaintiff in error could not be a citizen of the state of missouri, within the meaning of the constitution of the united states, and, consequently, was not entitled to sue in its courts. what claim does justice taney make in this passage? that sanford has the right to enslave scott that scott has the right to be emancipated that scott is not a citizen of missouri that sanford cannot sue because he is not a citizen