- The document provides guidance for students to analyze a shared sonnet between Romeo and Juliet in preparation for an assessment. - It instructs students to annotate the sonnet for religious words, body parts, and repetition. It also challenges them to identify the rhyme scheme and poetic form. - The document then analyzes the sonnet, explaining that Romeo asks to touch Juliet's hand, they exchange romantic and religious language discussing a kiss, and the sonnet builds climactically to them kissing.

1. Preparation for Assessment
– Shared Sonnet
LO: To analyse the shared sonnet in more detail in preparation for
your assessment
25/03/2016

2. Assessment Question
Discuss the language used in Act One, Scene Five –
The shared sonnet
Discuss = show your reasoning, backed up by
carefully selected evidence

3. Read the shared speech
Highlight/Annotate the following:
A. Words that remind you of religion
B. Words that mention body parts
C. Any repetition you can find
Challenge – Think about the form of the shared
speech. Rhyme scheme? What is it called?

4. Word classes
• Noun
• Verb
• Adjective
• Adverb
I am quickly running to the park.
Intu Watford is ridiculously big and beautiful.

5. What is happening in this sonnet?
• Romeo starts the sonnet by asking to touch Juliet’s hand, and states
that his lips are ready to be kissed.
• Juliet tells Romeo not to talk down to his hand, but even though he is a
pilgrim and she is a ‘Saint’, she would be willing to touch his hand and
unite
• Romeo replies that he wants to kiss instead of touching her hand
• Juliet is then witty and coy; she states that lips are only used for
prayer
• Romeo wants to kiss Juliet, and does it in the form of a prayer

6. ROMEO:
If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
JULIET:
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
The religious language makes the meeting
seem a sacred, holy moment and adds to the
sense that Romeo perceives Juliet as a
goddess/ angel/ saint
Repetition
creates sense
of
togetherness/
unity as the
couple come
together
Romantic,
affectionate
language

7. ROMEO:
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
JULIET:
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
ROMEO:
O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Religious language plays on Romeo’s name to imply he has
travelled a long way to reach his destination/ shrine -
Juliet
Romantic,
physical
language

8. JULIET:
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.
ROMEO:
Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.
Religious
language
Rhyming couplets build up to a moment of
climax, which is the kiss.

9. Table in books (Bullet points!)
Point Evidence – quote, zoom word
and word class
Explanation

10. Targets
• Use P.E.E structure (Level 5)
• Embedded quotations (Level 6)
• Use of connectives (Level 6)
• Discuss 2 or more connotations in detail (Level 7)
• Use literary and linguistic terminology accurately (Level 7/8)

11. Plenary
• On your post-it note, write down the quote you find
most powerful and WHY