Romeo & Juliet (Usborne Young Reading)

Summary:
In Verona there was two enemies known as the Capulets and the Montague who were always fighting. When Romeo had over heard from a Capulet in the market about a party, he and his cousin decide to go. That night at the party Romeo meets the beautiful Juliet who was a Capulet. They instantly fell in love but knew that they could never be together because of the two families. They come up with a plan to get married in secret and they do but Juliet’s cousin Tybalt dies Romeo is sent away. Juliet then decides to play dead so she won’t have to marry this guy Paris but it goes wrong when Romeo hears she is dead and decides to kill himself too. Juliet wakes up to see Romeo dead and stabs herself. So they die together and when the show more two families find out they decide to stop fighting.

Personal reaction:
I liked this book because it was written so that it could be read to little kids so they could understand it better. I liked all the pictures it had they were very colorful and appealing. I actually had always liked this tragedy because it had a lot of action and love. It reminded me of when we had to act it out in class.

Classroom Extension Ideas:
1.) Have the class have different parts and act out the play
2.) Have the class talk about the history of the story and compare it to the present day and how different it was show less