Class: English 9 Unit: Romeo and Juliet Lesson Plan: Tableau Vivant Objective: Students will be able to analyze

the perspective various characters in Romeo and Juliet through the use of Google drawing. Students will be able to create digital tableaus for Romeo and Juliet. Common Core Standard: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.3 Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone). Warm up (20 minutes): The following definition will be written on the board: Tableau Vivant: a living picture. Also known as a motionless performance. Students will walk around the given space. When I say STOP, the students must freeze exactly as they are. Practice once and demonstrate that they must be completely frozen. Then, I will give the students an adjective (see list below) and I will instruct them to walk around the space in a way that demonstrates that adjective. Once again, I will ask them to STOP. When they freeze I should be able to tell by their posture, facial expression and body position what adjective that they are trying to embody. Independent Tableau Prompts: Happy, sad, mad, bored, embarrassed, scared, tired, confused, etc. Once students are comfortable with independent tableaus, I will instruct the students to divide into pairs. I will hand out slips of paper that have tableau prompts written on them. (See list). The students will define three frozen pictures, or tableaus, for their prompt. One tableau will be the beginning, one will be the middle and one will be the end. Paired tableau prompts: The Race, The Day I Ate too Much,

First Day of School, What I Did on My Summer Vacation, How the Cookie Jar was Stolen, etc. I will ask for volunteers to share their ideas. Lesson Day 1: Students will be placed into groups of five. Each group will be assigned an act of the play. Students will be required to create three tableaus for their Act of Romeo and Juliet. Each tableau must be photographed and edited. The sentence that inspired the tableau must appear on the photograph. Students will then be directed to http://pixlr.com/express/. Pixlr allows students to easily edit and add special effects to their photographs. These photographs will be uploaded to the classroom web site for easy access. Lesson Day 2: The following day I will have students meet in the computer lab. I will have each group pull up their tableaus on a different computer. I will then have the students complete the paragraph portion of the final assessment sheet. (See below). Students will have 15 minutes of sustained silent writing. Students will then be able to explore a galley walk of tableaus. They will explore what each group did and respond to the questions on the following sheet. Final Assessment: The students will walk through a gallery of the tableaus on the computer. They must complete the final assessment worksheet and turn it in. We will close class with a discussion on what tableaus stood out to the students as being particularly effective or memorable. We will discuss what qualities these tableaus had. We will also discuss what the students learned about the play or characters and how this impacted their depiction of their scene.