Common Core alignment to "Reading: Literature and Subject-related Content" is to 3 key phrases: "Particular Topic", "Context" and "Reading Literature". CCSS Alignment Strand Numbers for Specific Grades:
Particular Topic: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 4.6. 5.6, 6.6, 7.6, 8.6, 9-10.6, 11-12.6
Context: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4a, 3.4a, 4.4a, 5.4a, 6.4a, 7.4a, 8.4a, 9-10.4a, 11-12.4a
Reading: Literature: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RL.2.4, RL.3.4, RL.4.4. RL.5.4, RL.6.4, RL.7.4, RL.8.4, RL.9-10.4, RL.11-12.4
Reading: Informational Text: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RI.2.4, RI.3.4, RI.4.4. RI.5.4, RI.6.4, RI.7.4, RI.8.4, RI.9-10.4, RI.11-12.4
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A vocabulary word list for Romeo and Juliet is listed by acts in the play:
Romeo and Juliet Act 1:
Mark = sub. God bless or save the mark = saving your favour
Shrift = confession
Soft = Wait a minute
Withal = with
Anon = soon
Pernicious = destructive
Portentous = indicating evil to come; threatening
Transgression = going beyond certain limits
Languish = long or pine for
Esteem = high rank
Purged = cleansed (of the smoke)
Same words listed without definitions:
Augmenting, Loathed, Good-den, Humor, Profane, Augmenting, Posterity, Heretics, Obscured, Boisterous, Alderman, Benefice, Pernicious, Portentous, Languish, Heretics, Esteem, Purged
Romeo and Juliet Act 2:
perjury, variable, intercession, chide, brine, rancor, feign, wanton
Romeo and Juliet Act 3:
appertaining, consort, mantle, tedious, beguiled, validity, abhors, beseech
Romeo and Juliet Act 4 & 5:
inundation, arbitrating, orisons, culled, solace, dirges, presage, impeach
Links to vocabulary words lists and puzzles for other Shakespeare plays:
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
King Lear
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
The Merchant of Venice
The Taming of the Shrew
The Winter's Tale
Twelfth Night
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Jillian Nardiello, an English teacher at Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School in New Jersey and Faith Rupert from Smoky Valley School District in Lindsborg, KS
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