2. 1. READ the rubric/instructions
⬜ Do not begin working based on your impression of what someone
said about the assignment. Read and understand your rubric first.
This will make sure your work is meaningful and that you do no
miss any details.
3. 2. Brainstorm/ Find a passage
⬜ The passage must be significant somehow
⬜ The passage will contain one or more of the following:
⬜ A theme
⬜ Character information
⬜ Conflict information
⬜ The length of your extract depends on the passage (how dense
the literary features are).
⬜ As general rule: Your passage should be at least 10 lines.
Make it no more than 20! (20 is pushing it - that will probably
be a long presentation. The example in this slideshow is 17
lines… and the outline is very long/almost over 4 minutes).
5. 3. Annotate/Translate That Passage
⬜ Use the guide to annotating a passage.
⬜ Translate and then determine literary importance.
⬜ From this annotation, you should be able to answer the
following question in the form of a thesis statement:
⬜ How do literary devices shape meaning?
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8. 4. Outline CER support for your answer
to the question
⬜ Once you know what the meaning (significance) of the
passage is, find a few good examples of literary devices that
show this.
⬜ Make an outline using claim, evidence, and reasoning.
9. 4. Sample Passage Annotation
⬜ I determined that my passage reveals a lot of important things
(theme, character, character relationships, conflict, etc.)
⬜ I will choose to focus my presentation on the theme of love and
Romeo’s opinions about this subject.
10. 4. Sample Outline Part 1
⬜ BACKGROUND INFO/CONTEXT: First fight between Cap/Mon is over.
Benvolio is concerned for Romeo, who is sulking.
⬜ Thesis: In this exchange between Romeo and Benvolio, Shakespeare
uses antithesis and figurative language to establish the theme of love as
tumultuous and compelling. Establishing this central theme is important
to the play because it is critical to the plot, and it helps to characterize
Romeo as someone driven and troubled by his emotions.
⬜ Ex1: CLAIM: Romeo personifies love to show its control over him and
the others:
⬜ EVIDENCE: “Without eyes, sees pathways” (I.i.172)
⬜ REASONING: Although love is blind, it has very deliberate movements
that guide a person. By personifying love, he makes it have a life of its
own (something in control of itself). He later states that he is troubled by
the love he feels, and he also blames the brawl in the earlier scene on
love more than on hate.
11. 4. Sample Outline Part 2
⬜ Ex2: C: Romeo begins to cry out to love in a series of exclamatory phrases beginning with “o!”. The addition
of antithesis shows how much love is in conflict with itself, and the very exposure to love creates conflict for
the person feeling it.
⬜ E: “O brawling love, O loving hate…” “Feather of lead!” “Cold fire!” (I.i.176)
⬜ R: Each antithetical pair of words details something about how he feels. Feather of lead shows how he can
both feel light and elated but also burdened by love. A cold fire describes the way he feels both emblazoned
and also alone, isolated, and saddened by his love. He calls it a “sick health” – an illness he has in spite of his
health..
⬜ Ex3: C: One final use of antithesis solidifies that love is never what it seems. It is contradiction of itself, and it
is the reason for Romeo’s sadness.
⬜ E: “Still-waking sleep that is not what it is!” (I.i.182)
⬜ R: The waking sleep is very appropriate considering that Romeo has been immobilized by his love- awake by
inactive. We know from an earlier set of lines that Romeo has shut himself up in his room all day and was not
part of the earlier fight. Later in this passage, he directly states that this is the love he feels and the reason for
what Benvolio says is Romeo’s “good heart’s oppression” or the sadness of the heart.
⬜ Conclusion: Antithesis is the main feature in this passage. Love is something that will bring Romeo
happiness and tragedy.
12. 5. Double check
⬜ Compare your outline to the rubric and the assignment
directions.
⬜ Go through each criteria on the rubric and double check that
your outline addresses the requirements. Make changes as
needed.
13. 6. Practice
⬜ Practice speaking your analysis aloud. Remember, your
presentation should be 2-4 minutes long.
⬜ Presentations will be stopped at 4 minutes. You will not be
able to go over the time limit.
⬜ Create relevant visual aids. Add presentation techniques as
needed.
