Romeo & Juliet

ROMEO & JULIET

For reading class Levi, Katie, Jordan, and I completed an intense study of  the play Romeo and Juliet. We started reading and acting out the play every day in class. This meant that everyone needed a role, but since there were only 4-6 participants, depending on absences, most of us had multiple roles. I don’t exactly recall who was what specifically, but I know for certain that I was Romeo. And, unfortunately, Katie was absent through most of the beginning of the play, and Mrs. Tiff was busy, so Mr. Tony had to be my Juliet. This never bothered me because I knew Mr. Tony would be mature about it.

Over the course of several weeks we got to stand up and participate in re-enacting sword fights, quarrels, speeches, and conversations from the play. We even got to watch the
2013 movie version of the play. Eventually we finished the play and moved onto quizzing. There were 5 quizzes in all; one for each act. We also got to use our book, so they were relatively easy quizzes.

After the quizzes the bulk of the work was over for us. It was time to see the story from a different perspective acted out by professionals. Mr. Eck set up a field trip for Levi, and Katie and I to go to the Theatre in Williamsport to see the play. As soon as the play started I could tell that it was indeed professional, and was going to be well worth the trip. The acting was funny, attention-taking, and surprisingly realistic to the time period the play was set in. But roughly 5 minutes before the end of the play, a fire alarm went off and everyone had to evacuate from the theatre.

   

The four of us walked  over to an italian pizza place 200 or so yards away from the theater. We had pizza and waited for our guest to arrive. This guest happened to be one of the bosses at the Theatre.  He told us that the alarm was set off from an oven burning food and then being opened, releasing all the smoke and setting off the smoke detector. He apologized for us not being able to see the ending of the play and we drove back to the school. 

Overall it was a great trip, and well worth it, even though we didn’t get to see the closing of the play, the incident made it more exciting because we knew the end anyways.

- by Alex S.

On September 29th,  Mr. Eck, Katie, Alex, and myself went to the Community Arts Center in Williamsport we saw the Romeo and Juliet play by William Shakespeare.

The play was good. They did skip some lines and they had the begining where they bite their thumb at them that was pretty cool. They even had all of the right characters there. The stage was designed so that it could build different things at different e times. The actors themselves did very well in their parts. We did not get to see the part when Juliet stabs herself with  Romeo is dead beside her because of the person on the 4th floor he was cooking and caught the kitchen on fire, which set off the alarms and caused everyone to leave early. We had to evacuate the building.

After our early departure, we went to eat pizza at Long Island pizza shop and Mr. Eck got all of us a good pizza. We also got to meet the person who runs the theater.

Overall, a worthwhile trip, even though we didn’t get to see the end of the play.

-- Levi A.