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Activities and Notes for Students
Programme and Notes
by
Steve Herbert
(p1)
Table of Contents
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Introduction to Romeo & Juliet.............................3
Introduction to the Programme..............................3
System Requirements........................................4
Installation...............................................4
How to get Started.........................................5
Using the Menus............................................5
The Main Menu..............................................6
Quizzes Menu...............................................6
Notes Menu.................................................7
Instructions...............................................7
Customising the Programme..................................8
About the Programme........................................9
(p2)
INTRODUCTION TO ROMEO & JULIET
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'Romeo & Juliet' is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays, and the only
one that deals directly with the theme of young love.
Written in about 1597, it is one of his earliest tragedies, and different
from the others in that the final tragedy cannot be traced directly to
some fault of character in either Romeo or Juliet.
As usual, Shakespeare did not create an original story. His characters are
taken from the history books, and the works of other authors. In this case
his basic story was a traditional Italian one, possibly based on true
events. Shakespeare seems to have acquired most of his material from one of
the first English versions of the story, a long poem written by Arthur
Brooke. He introduced new characters (noticeably Mercutio) and shortened
the time-span of the original plot to its final breathless length.
INTRODUCTION TO THE PROGRAMME
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The programme consists of a series of activities to assist high school
students learning Shakespeare's play 'Romeo & Juliet'. The student can
select the activity of his choice from a series of menus.
Activities include several quizzes or games, notes on a wide variety of
topics and graphics of the Globe Theatre.
The games are designed to be fun and at the same time to provide a fairly
painless way to memorise quotations, learn important speeches, and in
general, to become familiar with the characters and themes of the
play.
(p3)
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
===================
The programme will run on Premium Microbee computers with 64Kb of memory
or more.
The programme is normally supplied on one 5.25" floppy disk and is
ready to run.
USING THE MENUS
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You find your way around the different parts of the programme by using a
very simple system of menus.
The choices offered at each level are shown on the screen, with the first
one high-lighted. Use the arrow keys to move the high-light to the
selection you want. Then press the <Return> key to go to that selection.
To Find A Menu
If a menu is not currently showing on the screen, you can almost always get
to one by pressing the <<Esc>> key. This will halt the current activity,and
display the active menu.
(p5)
THE MAIN MENU
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The Main Menu Options are described briefly below.
Introduction
This is a welcome to the programme and a brief description of its features.
Quizzes
Choose one of the quizzes available from a further menu.
Notes
This also leads to another menu, listing the different topics for which
notes are available.
The Globe
This segment reveals interior and exterior views of Shakespeare's Globe
Theatre, with associated notes.
Quit
Return to CP/M
QUIZZES AND GAMES MENU
======================
These are the options available on this menu.
Quotation Quiz
Tests your detailed knowledge of the book by asking you to choose the
correct speaker of each quotation. Over 90 quotations to really test you.A
good score here earns you a clue to the competition code.
Missing Words
Vital passages from the text can be learnt by heart, as you guess the words
missing from the screen. Great revision value!
(p6)
NOTES MENU
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Major topics are:
Plot Summaries
This leads to another menu allowing you to select summaries of individual
Acts or key scenes.
Character Studies
Another menu to select notes on any of the major characters
Exam Questions
A selection of notes on how to handle different exam questions.
Themes
Discusses the major ideas of the play
Setting/Background
Brief notes on relevant points.
Language/Imagery
A discussion of Shakespeare's language, including his verse.
The Author
Notes about Shakespeare's life and a portrait.
INSTRUCTIONS
============
The programme has been designed to be as user-friendly as possible. Most of
the activities have on-screen help. Where more detailed instructions are
necessary, this option has been included in the menu for that particular
activity.
Activities which include their own instructions are:
Quotation Quiz
Missing Words
The Globe (Main Menu)
(p7)
CUSTOMIZING THE PROGRAMME
=========================
With a modicum of knowledge and the ability to use a text processor, you
should be able to customise some of the data used in the programme, if you
so desire. The most obvious areas where this can be accomplished are as
follows:
QUOTATION QUIZ - The data for this quiz is contained in the text file
RJQUOTES.QQZ . The first item in the file is the number of quotes
currently in the file. Don't forget to update this if you add or delete
quotes. Each question must contain the following items: The quotation
itself, the correct answer, 3 incorrect answers, a sentence explaining the
context of the quotation, the Act number, the scene number. Use ordinary
Arabic numerals for Act and scene numbers, not Roman numerals. When typing
in quotations, use a * to indicate line breaks. A quick look at the file
should make it clear what to do if you are still confused.
NOTES - I don't recommend that you alter the notes, as my system for
printing them to the screen is a little peculiar to say the least, but if
you must experiment, then go ahead. Plot summaries can be identified by the
file suffix .PLT , Character studies have .CHR , while other notes have the
suffix .NTS The first item in each file is the number of screens or pages
of data, then each 'page' has the number of data items on that page.
Beginning an item with a * indicates that the item is to be high-lighted in
the text. To print a blank line, include an item consisting of 4 or more
spaces enclosed in quotation marks. You may need to experiment a little to
find out just how much will fit on each page.
MISSING WORDS - If you have a lot of time on your hands, and are by nature
a patient and tolerant person like me, then you can try writing different
speeches for the Missing Words game. I'll leave you to figure out how it's
done! Unfortunately, you won't be able to change the reference to the
speech in the GAMES Menu.
I guess that's about all, unless you are one of those people who can't
resist seeing what Shakespeare looks like wearing spectacles and a false
nose. The pictures are all in Premium GRLOAD format.
(p9)
ABOUT THE PROGRAMME
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This programme began its life as a set of quizzes I programmed for my own
Literature students at a High School here in Singapore. Over the last two
years, the programme has grown and developed and gone through a variety of
versions, to become what it is today. It has been quite well-received by
students here who face a compulsory Shakespeare component in their
Cambridge GCE O Level examinations.
Originally, as the new owner of an Apple II clone, I programmed in
Applesoft Basic. The programme fitted easily onto one 5.25" floppy disk,and
consisted mainly of three games and the segment on the Globe Theatre. I
believed then as I believe now, that people do not really want to sit and
read pages of notes from a computer monitor.
However, feedback from users indicated a desire for more notes, so the
programme quickly grew. It also changed direction to become IBM-compatible
to run on the computer of choice of 80% of the student population here in
Singapore. So I put my prejudices aside and picked up a smattering of
GWBasic.
As the programme grew and became more sophisticated, I felt the need for
something a little more powerful and faster than interpreted Basic, so
Microsoft QuickBasic made its appearance. I still see room for improvements
and additions to the programme, and each new version on each different text
is a little more sophisticated than its predecessor. Who knows what the
future will bring?
Currently, available titles are:
MACBETH
ROMEO AND JULIET
ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
WALKABOUT
THE GHOST OF THOMAS KEMPE
and next on my hit-list
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
To Steve Herbert
154 Sixth Ave.
Avenue Park
Singapore 1027
The IBM version was converted to run under Microbee Microworld Basic.
The original BLOAD graphics were converted to BeeArtistic format,
edited and finally converted to GRLOAD format.
Alan Laughton Sept 1992
1027
A. PERSONAL USE
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Please enroll me as a registered user of your programme 'ROMEO & JULIE