Romeo and Juliet Reading Strategies

Summarize- when I read Romeo and Juliet, the one strategy I used profusely was Summarize. William Shakespeare is a very complicated and deep playwright, so it is hard to read his plays, and be able to take in everything thats going on. At the end of every scene, I would go back, and try remember and organize the scenes in my head. It really helped with breaking down the play to my level of reading. about  use  

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Inferring- The strategy that I used when reading Romeo and Juliet a lot was inferring. I used it when I was trying to figure out the words William Shakespeare used, I compared his words those of this century. I would find one of Shakespeare’s words and search it and find a word I knew to take the place of the word I didn’t know. By doing this, it helped me understand the story better and I was able to follow the dialogue easier.
A good strategy to use when reading Shakespeare is:  when you find words like:  you connect them to words like:

Context- While I was reading Romeo and Juliet, it was extremely hard to figure out what William Shakespeare was trying to get across to the reader. What I did to help understand it better was to look at the sentences in context. If a word had an exclamation mark after, i realized that a subject was saying something bold or exclamatory to the other subject. by doing this, it helps your further understanding words that are not accustomed to you.

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