You could spend an entire semester examining cause and effect in Romeo & Juliet, but your students would get bored. Instead, try this cause and effect lesson plan that involves writing a cause and effect paper using incidents from the play as evidence.
Things were going well until Paula Wetsock in the second row asked, "Mr. Leaveteaching, I understand you worked very hard on teaching cause and effect in Romeo & Juliet and that you probably spent hours on this cause and effect lesson plan, but it's really boring. I'm sure your principal could come up with a better cause and effect lesson plan. Maybe you could have us write a cause and effect paper analyzing cause and effect in Romeo & Juliet, for example."
"So you think that idiot principal of mine, could create a better cause and effect lesson plan and teach cause and effect in Romeo & Juliet better than me," I responded before noticing my principal was standing right behind me.
He handed me two papers: the first one said cause: you calling me an idiot; effect: you getting fired; the second one was a writing a cause and effect paper lesson plan that I'm going to share with you.
Determining cause and effect in Romeo and Juliet can be done with any of the following assignments. The procedures for writing a cause and effect paper on the teens' death will be provided. Click on the links for a more detailed explanation of other ideas.
