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Preface
This pathfinder is designed to help 9-12th grade students as they research Romeo and Juliet to write a literary critique of the play. The themes of Romeo and Juliet transcend many time periods. This pathfinder will also guide students as they adapt a scene from Shakespeare’s play to the culture 1960s. Student adaptions will include a script, set design, costume design, a dictionary of terms from the era, and a marketing plan for the redesigned plan.

Iowa Core Curriculum Essential Concepts and Skills
Literacy Use a variety of strategies and skills to comprehend and interpret complex literature. Engage in the information literacy process: access, evaluate, and communicate information and ideas.

Social Studies
Understand the role of culture and cultural diffusion on the development and maintenance of societies.

21st Century Skills
Apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Demonstrate critical thinking skills using appropriate tools and resources to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems and make informed decisions.

Dewey Decimal Numbers
822.3 Drama of Elizabethan period, 1558-1625 822.33 William Shakespeare 973.9 History of the United States from 1901

Search Terms
<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Shakespeare, William; Romeo and Juliet; Literary Criticism; 1960s, Segregation; Civil Rights Movement;

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Encyclopedias
<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">World Book Advanced Online Encyclopedia <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;"> ([|World Book, Inc, accessed via AEA Online at Maquoketa Valley High School)] <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">This encyclopedia serves as a broad source for general background and information about Romeo and Juliet. This is a good place to begin your research. Once you have narrowed your focus, it is helpful to come back here for more specific information.
 * Search: Use the keywords and search terms above. As you explore this source, browse the links included in the article and in the left margin for further information.**

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Encyclopedia Britanica Academic Edition <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;"> [|(access through UNI's Rod Library)] <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">This online encyclopedia is a great place to start for a general over view of your topic.
 * Search: Use the key words and search terms above. As you explore this source, browse the links included in the articles for further information.**

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Dictionary
<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Merrium Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;"> (Merrium Webster, 2004-2006) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">This resource is helpful to explain unfamiliar words when researching.
 * Search: Look up words that you want further clarification on word meaning.**

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Atlas
<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">The Great World Atlas <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">(DK, 2002; 2008) YR 912 G <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">An atlas that is divided by global areas. It provides maps and geographic, political, and economic information on every world region.
 * Search: Use the Table of Contents and Index to locate information about your chosen time period.**

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Biographical Source
<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Encyclopedia of World Biography <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;"> (Gale 1998) Ref CT 103.E56 <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">This is a good source for information about people related to your topic.
 * Search: Shakespeare, William; names of people important to the time period you have chosen**

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Subject Encyclopedias
<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Shakespeare’s World and Work: An Encyclopedia for Students <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;"> (Gale/Scribner’s 2001) Ref PR 2892.S56 <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">An encyclopedia with illustrated entries on Shakespeare’s life and texts, and Renaissance England. Includes timelines, sidebars, definitions in page margins, and other features that make it an easy-to-use reference source.
 * Search: Use the search terms above to locate articles in the index.**

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;"> (Oxford, 2001; [2009]) Ref PR 2892.O94 2001 <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">A book with more than 3000 entries that provide information and commentary on William Shakespeare’s life, times, plays, and poems. It covers actors, characters, figures of speech, censorship, film adaptations, and many other topics.
 * Search: Use the search terms above to locate entries with assistance from the index.**

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Great Events: 1900-2001 <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">(Salem Press, 2002) YR 909 G <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">This multi-volume set covers major events that took place during the last 100 years. This will be very beneficial for finding specific events that took place during the time period you are researching.
 * Search: Use the Table of Contents to locate events that took place during the time period you have chosen.**

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;"> (Gale, 2005) Ref GT 5-7/E53 <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">This source has information about clothing styles throughout history. It will be helpful in choosing how to fashion the costumes for your revised scene from the play.
 * Search: Use the Table of Contents and Index to locate information specific to the time period you have chosen.**

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">American History: Academic Edition <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">(ABC-CLIO) [|Access through Rod Library’s A-Z databases] This source has information about American History. It is a good place to research your time period and gather information about the culture and events of that period in American history.
 * Search: Civil Rights Act; 1960; Segregation**

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Fiction
<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Selfors, Suzanne. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Saving Juliet <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">. Walker, 2008. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Seventeen-year-old Mimi Wallingford’s stage fright and fight with her mother on the closing night of Romeo and Juliet are nothing compared to the troubles she faces whens he and her leading man are transported to Shakespeare’s Verona, when she decides to give the real Juliet a happy ending.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Garfield, Leon. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Shakespeare Stories <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">. Houghton Mifflin, 1985. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">An acclaimed author has rewritten twelve of Shakespeare's plays in narrative form, retaining much of the original language, and thus the flavor of the bard's dramas.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Magazine Article
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">"SOUND CHALLENGES FOR THE BREGENZ FESTIVAL'S PRODUCTION OF WEST SIDE STORY."//<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border: 0px initial initial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Entertainment Design // 37.12 (2003): 10. //<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border: 0px initial initial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MasterFILE Premier //. EBSCO. Web. 10 Nov. 2010. <span style="font-family: Helvetica,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Accessed through EBSCO Online

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Newspaper Article
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Leba, Hertz. "Fun facts about 'West Side Story'." //<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border: 0px initial initial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">San Francisco Chronicle (10/1/2007 to present) // 24 Oct. 2010: Q21. //<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border: 0px initial initial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Newspaper Source //. EBSCO. Web. 10 Nov. 2010. Accessed through EBSCO Online

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Streaming Video
<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">//The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation: Part 01//. //PBS, 2005. Full Video.// <span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">26 October 2010. <http://www.discoveryeducation.com/>. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">A video summarizing major events of the 1960s. 1 hour 20 minutes.

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