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=**Final Homework Please download and read carefully these two documents before class on Friday/ Monday  Exam help! You can now download the semester two exam review guide here! **=

==Wikipost help! You can now download a document to help you with your wikipost here, especially if you have an opposition. Please be sure to fill in your rubric and hand it in.==

You can find your class's model essays, with comments, on your class page. Use these and your previous essays to help you prepare for the upcoming exam.

Please make sure you review how to quote properly! Here is the information again for you: Make sure you use at least two quotes per paragraph. This is how to cite them: Cite verse (plays and poems) by divisions – act, scene, and line. Use periods to separate the various parts. For short quotations of verse, use a diagonal line to show where each new line of verse begins. Try to use a **short phrase** to smoothly introduce your quote, and don't forget the comma between your words and the quote! //When Juliet learns that Romeo is a Montague, **she exclaims,** “My only love, sprung from my only hate!/ Too early seen unknown, and known too late!” (1.5.138-139).// // Verse quotations of more than three lines should be indented and introduced with a colon. In this case, no speech marks are needed. Each line of verse should begin on a new line and no diagonal lines are needed. // //When Tybalt learns that a Montague is at the party, he exclaims:// //Patience perforce with willful choler meeting// //Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting.// //I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall,// //Now seeming sweet, convert to bitt’rest gall (1.5.365-369).//

=**Romeo and Juliet Resources**= You can find Sparknotes by yourself! The last two sites are for UK students but have some excellent notes and ideas and are very detailed. Check out the links below. The first one has a really basic intro and overview, the second one has some fascinating details about the play in performance and from actors' and directors' points of view. [] [|http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/gcse/romeo.htm]
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Answering exam questions: Model Here's a great example of how to incorporate quotes into your own writing to support and defend your ideas. Thanks to Dianna Li.

Juliet is a quiet and polite girl. She seems to know her place, referring to marriage as an “honor” (1.3.71), and addressing her mother as “madam” (1.3.7). After Lady Capulet urges her to consider Paris, Juliet replies that she is open to the possibility, but only because her mother suggests it. This, again, is a demonstration of Juliet’s respect towards her mother. Finally, although Juliet is tolerant throughout her mother’s continuous shallow praise of Paris, her tolerance is not infinite, as she, after many lines of the nurse’s rambling, tells her to be quiet.

Discussion Board
“//Kids these days! They think that love conquers all, that nothing matters except how they feel about each other. They have no sense of responsibility to their families, no respect for tradition, no regard for those who are older and wiser. They don’t know the problems they’re going to have that all the love in the world won’t solve for them.”//
 * What do you think of this complaint? Have you heard older people say these things about kids today? How would you respond to this speaker?**

What a haughty statement this is! Why, of course this is what “kids” believe; this is what everybody believes. This is what society, literature, and the media all have us believing. The subject of love appears so often – around every corner, it seems, and what everybody seems to know of love is that it makes us blind. That’s how everybody – from children to old grandpas – perceives it. True love sees no boundaries; that’s what we are taught and shown in films, novels, and, especially, fairytales from a young age. And of course we believe in it, because who doesn’t want to believe in something magical and pure and all-powerful? Truthfully, I quite despise attempting to analyze and put a meaning to love – love, which is something so inexplicable and wonderful that to define it would be a blasphemy. To try and explain it would be sullying its mystique. But I know that there is, frankly, nothing more flawed and broken than the dynamics of love, yet it is for all its imperfections that we accept it. Because what else can we do? Love is so very potent, so intoxicating – it is a burning. It is the burning of a fire, an unquenchable fire of the human spirit that is ignited even among our non-believers. And despite the torment it brings, we still yearn for love – to feel it, to be wrapped in its arms, to hold it within our grasps – because of exactly what the speaker in this quote finds so frivolous: its perplexing ability to triumph over all. Why do “kids” shirk all responsibilities, dismiss tradition, and ignore their elders when in love? The answer is actually quite laughable. It is because they cannot help it. Young love is passionate and foolish and devoid of all prudence. There’s no thinking, only acting. Being untamable and deprived of all rationale is part of the excitement. The speaker implies that young love is disrespectful and witless, but no – young love is only naïve. Young adults are unburdened and innocent enough to love without limitations. They understand that love is worth sacrificing all else. If need be, all else can be tossed aside, because there is nothing more vital, nothing more extraordinary, than a genuine love. However, disrespect never comes into play. For youngsters, it is simply that love prevails. This condescending speaker…perhaps he has forgotten how to or has never been able to love recklessly. Perhaps he has only known love that means comfort and convenience. Or, perhaps he has never truly experienced love at all.