Romeo and Juliet - A Complete Unit of Work - teaching resource

Romeo and Juliet – Complete GCSE English Unit of Work

(259-slide PowerPoint, 50 worksheets & 32-lesson overview)

This comprehensive GCSE English teaching resource covers William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in depth, providing everything you need to teach the play effectively. The unit includes a 259-slide fully editable PowerPoint, 50 PDF worksheets, and a detailed 32-lesson overview, making it perfect for classroom teaching, intervention sessions, or independent learning.

The resource explores the play act by act and scene by scene, analysing the plot, characters, themes, language, and historical context through a wide range of engaging and differentiated activities.

Key features and activities include:

• Introduction to Shakespeare’s life, the Elizabethan theatre, and the play’s historical, social, and literary context

• Scene-by-scene activities to consolidate understanding

• Comprehension questions assessing knowledge of plot, character, language, themes, and context

• Close analysis of key characters, including Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio, and Tybalt

• Exploration of central themes such as love, hate, fate, and loyalty

• Study of the play’s representation of gender and women in Elizabethan society

• Developing key reading skills: inference, deduction, and analytical writing

• Using the P.E.T.E.R. structure (Point, Evidence, Technique, Explain, Reader) to craft effective GCSE exam essays

• Detailed analysis of Shakespeare’s language, key quotes, soliloquies, and monologues

• Understanding how Shakespeare creates tension, suspense, and dramatic irony

• Role-play and hot-seating activities to deepen character understanding

• Empathy writing tasks to engage students creatively

• Video links to support the teaching of key scenes

This Romeo and Juliet unit is designed to suit learners of all abilities and aligns with the AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas, and OCR GCSE English Literature specifications.

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