Brainstorm with your group: What is one question you have

about the plot/characters of Romeo and Juliet? When you

agree on one, come up and write it.
Cause and Effect Game:
Work with your table group to match
every cause card with its effect
card
The winning group (s) will get a prize
on Monday to go with their quiz
 Cause: The Montagues and
Capulets have an ancient feud
Effect: The Prince decrees
that the next Montague or
Caplet to fight will face death
Cause: Rosaline does not
love Romeo, causing him to
be lovesick and depressed
Effect: Benvolio
promises he will find
Romeo a new girl
Cause: Capulets servant
does not know how to
read
Effect: Romeo and
Benvolio find out about
Capulets party
Cause: Paris asks
Capulet for permission
to marry Juliet
Effect: Capulet invites
Paris to his party to woo
Juliet
Cause: The Nurse has
raised Juliet since she
was a baby
Effect: Juliet trusts and
depends on the Nurse
for most of the play
Cause: Capulet stops Tybalt
from killing Romeo for
crashing the Capulet party
Effect: Tybalt swears to
kill Romeo and writes a
letter challenging him
Cause: Romeo and Juliet
flirt at the Capulet party
Effect: Romeo and
Juliet fall in love
Cause: Romeos friends
make fun of him after
Capulets party
Effect: Romeo goes into
the Capulets
garden/orchard by himself
Cause: Juliet goes onto her balcony
to talk to herself about how she has
fallen in love with Romeo and wishes
their families were not enemies
Effect: Romeo proclaims
his love for Juliet and
asks her to marry him
Cause: Romeo asks Friar
Laurence to marry him
and Juliet
Effect: Friar Laurence
marries Romeo and Juliet
in secret
Cause: Romeo stays out
all night talking to Juliet
Effect: Romeo never
receives Tybalts
challenge
Cause: Romeo rejects Tybalts
challenge in the streets of
Verona, and proclaims his love
for Capulets
Effect: Mercutio
challenges Tybalt in place
of Romeo and is slain
Cause: Benvolio tells
Romeo of Mercutios
death
Effect: Romeo slays
Tybalt
Cause: The Prince sees that
Tybalt and Mercutio are dead
and demands explanation
Effect: Benvolio recounts
the fight between Tybalt,
Mercutio, and Romeo
Cause: The Capulets call
for justice due to
Tybalts death
Effect: The prince
banishes Romeo
Cause: Romeo hears
of his banishment
Effect: Friar Laurence
arranges to send Romeo
to Mantua
Cause: Juliet hears of
Romeos banishment and
threatens to kill herself
Effect: The Nurse arranges
for Romeo and Juliet to
have their wedding night
Cause: Juliet seems
really sad (apparently
about Tybalts death)
Effect: Capulet rushes a
wedding between Paris
and Juliet
Cause: Juliets parents
threaten to throw her out
if she doesnt marry Paris
Effect: Juliet begins to lie
to her parents about how
happy she is to marry Paris
Cause: Juliet asks Friar
Laurence for help avoiding
her wedding to Paris
Effect: Friar Laurence makes
Juliet a potion that will make
her look like she is dead
Cause: Juliet takes the
potion Friar Laurence
gives her
Effect: Juliets parents hold
a funeral for her and put
her in the Capulet tomb
Cause: Balthasar
sees Juliets funeral
Effect: Balthasar tells
Romeo that Juliet is
dead
Cause: Romeo learns
of Juliets death
Effect: Romeo buys poison
from an apothecary and rides
to Verona to die beside Juliet
Cause: Friar Laurence sends Friar
John to tell Romeo about Juliets
faked death, but is locked out of
Mantua
Effect: Friar John fails to
deliver the letter and returns
it to Friar Laurence.
Cause: Friar Laurence
learns his letter was not
delivered
Effect: Friar Laurence hurries to
the Capulet cell, where he
discovers Romeo and leaves Juliet
upon hearing a noise
Cause: Paris goes to
Juliets grave to give her
flowers and sees Romeo
Effect: Romeo kills Paris
to avoid being turned in
to the prince
Cause: Romeo sees
Juliets dead body and
takes the poison
Effect: Juliet wakes to see
Romeo is dead and stabs
herself with a dagger
Cause: Pariss servant
sees Paris die in his duel
with Romeo
Effect: Pariss servant runs
to get the prince, watchmen,
and other authorities
Cause: The prince sees
Paris, Romeo, and Juliet
dead
Effect: The prince summons
the Montagues and Capulets
to the Capulet tomb
Cause: The Montagues and
Capulets see their children dead
and hear Friar Laurences
explanation
Effect: The two dueling families
make peace and promise to
create statues to honor their
dead children.
The Question game!
Rules:
Use the character cards of one person at your
table group
Shuffle them and divvy them out
You will, if invited up to the front, be asked to
answer the question posed to you based on the
character you are
If someone guesses your character correctly
based on your answer, you get a piece of candy