Likes and Dislikes about Shakespeare Unit

-Transfer of Romeo and Juliet into modern language-I liked this because it made Romeo and Juliet easier to understand. Shakespeare's wording is difficult to understand at times, but this activity made it a lot easier because it let us ask each other what things meant.
-Reading aloud-This was nice and allowed us to all be at the same place in the play at the same time. It also gave us the chance to ask questions . Reading aloud had a few problems. One was that some lines were really long and hard difficult words in them. Another is that some people didn't place much emphasis on the wording and it became monotone.
-Listening to the recording-This was nice because the readers placed emphasis on the wording which made it more exciting. This also easily allowed us to stop and converse about what just happened.
-The movie-I liked watching the movie because it helped us to understand what was actually happening in the play. Just reading is it not as good a s actually seeing what was going on. The movie was also easier to follow and immersed us in the way things used to be in places like Verona in terms of fashion and architecture.
-Posters of terms-When we created the posters with Shakespeare's terminology like monologue, metaphor, allusion, etc. was helpful. It helped us understand what the terms meant and actually see that he does use them throughout the play. The only problem I had with this was that it was tedious and took a lot of work to find examples of the terms we were looking for.
-Quizzes-I didn't like all the quizzes we had (but then again, who DOES like quizzes?). Although they did help us understand what was happening in the play, they were difficult when we hadn't gone over what happened. The wording Shakespeare uses is hard to understand and even though we had read the text it was still difficult.
-Explaining metaphors-It was helpful when Ms. Chiang stopped and explained the metaphors. Many of them used terms we didn't understand, thus causing us not to understand the metaphor, but when we stopped and discussed it, the metaphors were easier to comprehend.