Cheryl E. Merritt
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1. Tybalt was:
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___a. a relative of the Montagues.
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___b. an enemy of County Paris
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___c. interested in marrying Juliet.
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___d. hot-headed and always ready to fight.
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___e. angry that Romeo had come to the Capulets’ party.
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2. Romeo had gone to the costume party only because:
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___a. he had hoped to meet Juliet there.
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___b. he was tired of staying home alone.
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___c. he thought a young lady named Rosaline was going to be there.
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___d. he had nowhere else to go.
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___e. he wanted to see if he could start a fight with any of his enemies who might attend.
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3. Juliet was worried about marrying Romeo because:
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___a. she knew Romeo was an enemy of her family.
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___b. she wasn’t sure she loved him.
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___c. she knew her parents had found someone else for her marry.
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___d. she realized that both their lives world be in danger if they married.
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___e. she did not want to upset Friar Laurence.
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4. Mercutio fought Tybalt in Romeo’s place because:
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___a. he thought that Romeo was too afraid to fight.
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___b. he thought that Romeo was love-sick over Rosaline.
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___c. he knew Romeo hadn’t been feeling well lately.
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___d. he felt like fighting at the moment, and this was his chance.
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5. Instead of having Romeo executed for killing Tybalt, Prince Escalus decided that:
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___a. he should be put into prison for life.
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___b. he should be sent away from Verona forever.
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___c. he would never be allowed to get married.
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___d. he would have to work for the city of Verona as punishment.
Genealogy and family history may be an area that is sparked by this unit. The desire to know themselves and their origins, to learn from whom they acquired their genes that make them unique.
If you count the number of people whose blood flows in your veins, you notice that, in the first generation back, there were only your two parents whose genes contributed to your genetic make-up. In the second generation back, your grandparents’ generation, there were four people and in the third generation back, eight and so on. The number keeps doubling in geometric progression. Viewed another way, it took, in only six generations (added up: 64+32+16+8+4+2), 126 people make you genetically what you are.
Tracing families genealogy is a hobby anyone can pursue because we all descend from people who have passed through this world before us.
Today genealogy is recognized as a science. It uses all the techniques that any other science employs: research to discover what has been previously proved; building on that to discover new data; analysis of old and new research to discover weaknesses and strengths; synthesis to pull old and new together and complete a product. It begins with the known and works toward the unknown. Searching for an ancestor involves many disciplines; history, geography, mathematics, law, religion, and more. These may become tools for a sixth grade teacher especially because on this level all of the major required coursed may be taught by one teacher. This teacher may incorporate this aspect simultaneously in this unit.
The teacher may have students write down what they know about themselves. This can be a rewarding experience for the students. They will start with what is pertinent and go on from there with what ever they want to add.
Beginning with where and when they were born. What is their father’s name? Their mother’s? What was her maiden name? Were they baptized, christened, or Bar Mitzvahed? Where? When? Are they still single?
It may be of special interest to Black students and teachers of Black students that throughout the Western world and Africa, there are thousands of records dealing with slavery. In many cases, they were dutifully kept because of their importance to the growth of capitalism. When Africans were seized from their homeland and brought to America, the slave ship captain recorded it in his manifest. Once off the ship, if able to survive the journey, the slaves’ lives were recorded in many ways— sometimes in separate records, but more often as part of the normal course of events in the slave owner’s business affairs.
Once a family is traced through oral history, census, and vital statistics records back to slavery, there are familiar techniques to establish relationships through slave records.
