Romeo & JulietCharacterisation

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Adjectives to describe Romeo, Juliet and Tybalt.

Selected words that described their emotional state.

Today,

Come up with words, on your own, to represent feelings: your own, Romeo’s feelings and Juliet’s feelings.

Scenario 1Scenario 1Who is the person you

like the least?

One day while you were shopping for a new school bag, you ran into the person you like the least. How did you react?

Describe how you felt at that moment.

My tutor from pre-university.

I quickly turned away and walked in the opposite direction.

I felt angry and annoyed because seeing him reminded me of all the rude and insensitive words that he used on my class back then.

Scenario 2Scenario 2Who is the person you

like the least?

One day while you were shopping for a new school bag, you ran into the person you like the most. How did you react?

Describe how you felt at that moment.

My grandmother.

I gave her a hug.

My grandmother always makes me feel like a little girl. Thus when I hug her, I get a sense of comfort.

Empathy It is the capacity to recognize and, to some extent, share feelings (such as sadness or happiness) that are being experienced by another being (fictional or non-fictional).

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Why is empathy important?

1) You will begin to think and feel like the characters,

2) Encourages you to think like the characters,

3) Accurate representation of characters,

4) Students will then develop the ability to invent characters who are more realistic in their narrative writing.

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