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(Recorded course) Romeo and Juliet with Dr. Henry Russell
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In this course, you will study Sheakespeare’s fabulously beautiful use of language and learn why Romeo and Juliet are the best-loved couple in love ever created. Romeo and Juliet live in a world full of conflict and danger as all love must, and it is to teach us how to love well in such a world that Shakespeare wrote his play.
How to get the most out of Romeo and Juliet with Dr. Henry Russell:
First, read the course materials below before the first class recording.
Then have a notebook ready and available for class notes each recorded session.
Read assignments before class recordings.
Watch that week’s recording a second time if you need to revisit information.
Do the assignments, quizzes, and any extra work assigned for that week.
Once the course is completed to the parent's and professor’s satisfaction, there is a Certificate of Completion at the end to be filled in for your records.
Total classes: 7
Duration: 55 minutes
Prerequisite: Ability to read the books, underline and take notes and ask questions.
Suggested grade level: 9th to 12th grades.
Suggested credit:1/2 semester credit. Combine with A Midsummer Night’s Dream for 1 full credit
Instructor: Dr. Henry Russell
Course description: As always, the play will be discussed in terms of its actions, the moral lessons, its Biblical and Cultural references, and Shakespeare’s constant concern with the relations between the Catholic Church and the English state. Techniques of construction and language will be highlighted as possible. Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most misunderstood well-loved play of the bard of Avon. As a tragedy, we must keep in mind that it is based on a fault of the main characters, at the least. But there is fault enough to go around to many in the play. So easy is it to get on the wrong side of this play that Shakespeare had to write A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a true comedy, to help his audience figure it out.
Course outline:
Week I: The Catholic Shakespeare biography
Week II: Act I
Week III: Act II
Week IV: Act III
Week V: Act IV
Week VI: Act V
Week VII: General Topics from Play
Course materials: Any edition with Act, Scene divisions and line numbers is fine.
Homework: Expect to spend about one and one-half hours per week outside of class on reading and notetaking. There will be weekly automated-graded quizzes available for immediate feedback, as well as two exams, one in the middle and one at the end of the course.
Technical Help: If you have any technical trouble or questions about course content, please email us at homeschoolconnections@gmail.com.
©2021 Homeschool Connections and Dr. Henry Russell.. All rights reserved. This course is designed by Dr. Henry Russell.
This material is only to be used for its intended purpose by active subscribers of Homeschool Connections. Any other use without explicit permission is in violation of the seventh commandment (yes, the 7th commandment) and in violation of US and International copyright laws.
You may print or download to local hard disk extracts for your personal homeschool and non-commercial use only. This is not to be used for homeschool co-ops without express written permission from Homeschool Connections.
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(Recorded course) Romeo and Juliet with Dr. Henry Russell
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Henry Russell
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Sophia Russell
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Recorded
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Literature ➤ Renaissance/Shakespeare Literature
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High School
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Recorded, free with subscription
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November 9th, 2021 at 12:00 AM ET
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January 4th, 2022 at 2:00 AM ET
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The Catholic Shakespeare: A Contrast of Kings: Macbeth and Julius Caesar
The Catholic Shakespeare: Early and Late Comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest
The Hobbit or There and Back Again as Gateway to J.R.R.Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Beowulf and Christ
Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer; Trust God and Tradition
The Man Who Was Thursday by Chesterton (Modern Catholic Classics Series)
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (Modern Catholic Classics Series)
Homer’s Odyssey; The Soul of Pre-Socratic Wisdom
The Iliad: Glory and the Will of God
King Arthur and Christ: Heroism and Holiness
Medieval Literature for Modern Catholics
Scarlet Letter
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Chivalry, Courtesy and Chastity
Sophocles and Tragedy
Virgil’s Aeneid: The Founding of Nations in the Will of God
Death Comes for the Archbishop (American Classics Series)
Redemptive Comedy of Flannery O’Connor (American Classics Series)
Inferno (Hell) by Dante
Purgatorio (Purgatory) by Dante
Dante’s Paradiso (Heaven)
- This material is only to be used for its intended purpose by active subscribers of Homeschool Connections or purchasers of the course. Any other use without explicit permission is in violation of the seventh commandment, and in violation of US and International copyright laws.
- You may print or download to your own storage extracts for your personal homeschool and non-commercial use only. This is not to be used for homeschool co-ops without express written permission from Homeschool Connections.
- Upon completion of the course, you must delete all copies of course materials from any storage on which you saved permissible extracts.
Henry Russell
About Henry Russell
A graduate of Princeton and South Carolina (MS), Dr. Henry Russell completed his graduate work at Louisiana State University. Formerly the Chairman of Ave Maria College’s Department of Literature, he has also been a professor at Franciscan University of Steubenville and Wake Forest University. He is a founding faculty member of the St. Robert Southwell Creative Writing Workshop held in Mahwah, New Jersey.
Dr. Russell is Headmaster of the St. Augustine’s Homeschool Enrichment Program, which he founded with his wife Crystal. The program began in Fall 2005 with 20 students in two living rooms and now tutors more than 140 students in three locations.
Dr. Russell’s works include The Catholic Shakespeare Audio Series. He was the Associate Editor of The Formalist from 1990-2004 and his writings have been published in various journals. He was honored to edit Dr. Alice von Hildebrand’s groundbreaking volume, The Privilege of Being a Woman.
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