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Lesson Plan on Blogging Sandy Waltz English 9 Honors Unit: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Goals: To understand the dynamic relationships between the characters and explore character conflict Objectives: Students will be introduced to the concept of blogging. Students will analyze the play to explain character relationships. Through blogging, students will gain a better understanding of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Procedure and Activities: 1. Introduction: Students will look at various blogs to understand the concept and feel of a blog. As a class, we will talk about what elements make up a good as well as a bad blog. A good process to take your student through. 2. Students will create/set up their own blog at the computer lab using Edublog or a similar program. 3. After reading Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet, instructor will be assigned to take on the persona of a character from the play. Characters include: Romeo, Juliet, Tybalt, Mercutio, The Prince, Lord Capulet, Lady Capulet, Lord Montague, Lady Montague, Benvolio, a citizen of Verona. 4. Students will then have to take on the perspective of this character throughout the play and write a daily bog of the events as they unfold in the play. This blog will be more of a personal reaction to the play rather than a summary of events. Students are encouraged to use direct textual evidence to support their reaction in their blog A great way to see if they are comprehending the material. 5. Students will also be required to add a comment to someone else's blog while in character. I like that they stay in character! 6. At the conclusion of the play, students will be required to write an extensive blog of the play and how that character did or did not change as a result of the tragedy, Evaluation: Students will be evaluated on setting up a blog, writing a daily blog that is no less than 100 words per entry, commenting on another student's blog, staying in character and using textual evidence from the play to support their character analysis. Spelling, grammar and conventions will be evaluated as well.