^ WORD NETWORK FOR TIME
Vocabulary A word network is
a collection of words related to a
topic. As you read the unit selections,
identify words related to the idea of
time, and add them to your Word
Network. You might begin by
adding words from the Launch
Text, such as future. For each word
you identify, add a related word, such
as a synonym or an antonym.
Tool Kit
Word Network Model© Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. All rights reserved.NOTESESSENTIAL QUESTION: How do our attitudes toward the past and future shape our actions?Juliet swallows a special poison that allows her to appear dead
for three days and then reawaken. Her family is shocked and
grief-stricken by her apparent death. They put her body in the
family’s burial crypt. Romeo, hearing this, is struck with unbearable
pain; now life has no meaning. A messenger from Juliet, who would
have explained her plan, never finds him. Time is not Romeo’s friend;
the timing mishaps in these final scenes betray him.
Romeo goes to see Juliet’s body and finds Paris at her crypt, deep
in mourning. Paris attacks Romeo, believing him to be a vandal, and
is killed in the fight. Romeo regrets killing him, though not enough
to forget about Juliet’s death. He drinks poison and dies. At this
moment, Juliet awakens to find the now dead Romeo beside her.
Horror-struck, she takes her own life with his dagger.
Examined in chronological order, it is hard to argue that anything
other than death and misery came out of Romeo and Juliet’s
relationship. However, Shakespeare would disagree on this point.
His argument comes at the play’s very beginning, where he writes:
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.
Thus, the miserable, painful deaths of so many characters and the
grief of their friends and relatives lead to a lasting peace between
the rival families. Future generations, living without strife, might
consider the sacrifice a necessary step to a better age.
Nevertheless, it is doubtful that Shakespeare’s own dead
characters would agree with him. Mercutio certainly would not. He
leaves the world irate, saying, “A plague o’ both your houses! / They
have made worms’ meat of me.” Tybalt and Paris are creatures of the
present, and no thoughts of impending familial reconciliation enrich
their last moments. For their sakes, and for the sakes of the lovers
themselves, it would have been better if that moment at the party, the
moment Romeo first saw Juliet, had never taken place. ❧5678TIMEchronologically sequentiallyfuture presentimpending far-offBetter Never to Have Met at All 241LIT17_SE12_U03_LT.indd 241 20/03/16 12:21 AM^ WORD NETWORK FOR TIME
Vocabulary A word network is
a collection of words related to a
topic. As you read the unit selections,
identify words related to the idea of
time, and add them to your Word
Network. You might begin by
adding words from the Launch
Text, such as future. For each word
you identify, add a related word, such
as a synonym or an antonym.
Tool Kit
Word Network Model© Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. All rights reserved.NOTESESSENTIAL QUESTION: How do our attitudes toward the past and future shape our actions?Juliet swallows a special poison that allows her to appear dead
for three days and then reawaken. Her family is shocked and
grief-stricken by her apparent death. They put her body in the
family’s burial crypt. Romeo, hearing this, is struck with unbearable
pain; now life has no meaning. A messenger from Juliet, who would
have explained her plan, never finds him. Time is not Romeo’s friend;
the timing mishaps in these final scenes betray him.
Romeo goes to see Juliet’s body and finds Paris at her crypt, deep
in mourning. Paris attacks Romeo, believing him to be a vandal, and
is killed in the fight. Romeo regrets killing him, though not enough
to forget about Juliet’s death. He drinks poison and dies. At this
moment, Juliet awakens to find the now dead Romeo beside her.
Horror-struck, she takes her own life with his dagger.
Examined in chronological order, it is hard to argue that anything
other than death and misery came out of Romeo and Juliet’s
relationship. However, Shakespeare would disagree on this point.
His argument comes at the play’s very beginning, where he writes:
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.
Thus, the miserable, painful deaths of so many characters and the
grief of their friends and relatives lead to a lasting peace between
the rival families. Future generations, living without strife, might
consider the sacrifice a necessary step to a better age.
Nevertheless, it is doubtful that Shakespeare’s own dead
characters would agree with him. Mercutio certainly would not. He
leaves the world irate, saying, “A plague o’ both your houses! / They
have made worms’ meat of me.” Tybalt and Paris are creatures of the
present, and no thoughts of impending familial reconciliation enrich
their last moments. For their sakes, and for the sakes of the lovers
themselves, it would have been better if that moment at the party, the
moment Romeo first saw Juliet, had never taken place. ❧5678TIMEchronologically sequentiallyfuture presentimpending far-offBetter Never to Have Met at All 241LIT17_SE12_U03_LT.indd 241 20/03/16 12:21 AM• Concept maps about people and social
situations contain words that have subtle
differences in meaning and cannot necessarily
be substituted for one another. (For
example, for the network built around the
word shocked, the words awed, distressed,
stupefied, and traumatized carry similar
meanings but are not interchangeable.)• 1fteP, eURecKaNNy KP ParratKXeU, the coPceRtU
represented by rare words are known by
common words that most students understand.
In describing characters or problems, an
author will use a number of different words
to describe the same concept rather than
repeating the word.Word Network for Facing the
Future, Confronting the Past
Students may fill in the Word Network as they
read the selections in the unit, or they may
choose to just jot down words as they read and
complete the Word Network when they are done.
Explain to students that many word
associations are subjective; one student might
think a word relates to facing the future,
confronting the past, while another student does
not. Tell students to fill in the Word Network with
any words they think are relevant. Each student’s
Word Network will be unique. If you choose to
print the Word Network, distribute it to students
at this point so they can use it throughout the
rest of the unit.Unit Introduction 241
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