Romeo and Juliet Outline

Topic of Essay- How the unique charcter traits of Friar Lawrence, Romeo, and Juliet play a role in helping the tragedy ensue.
Introduction
Lead- The charcters in Romeo and Juliet are very well developed and complex.
Thesis- Juliet's, Romeo's and Friar Lawrence's personaities and unique traits contribute a lot to the tragedy that ensues.
Body Paragraph 1
Topic Sentence- Friar Lawrence is a very helpful and unique individual.
     1. Friar Lawrence knew about Romeo's arranged marriage, Rosaline, and he was supposed to marry them very soon. Even though he knew about this arranged marriage, he agreed to help Romeo marry Juliet for the sake of love.
Body Paragraph 2
Topic Sentence- Juliets' desires and tendency to be overdramatic helps the story unfold in a very intresting way that makes you want to never put the book down.
     1. Juliet usually got her way in the book and when she was anxious or nervous or excited she was very dramatic about it, not like people are today.
Body Paragraph 3
Topic Sentence- Romeo's role is very important in this play because he is one of the main reasons that the play turns out the way that it does.
Conclusion
Sum up and make connections to modern world.

Reading Response

I recently started reading the book "The Wednesday Wars," by Gary D. Schmidt. It is about a seventh grade boy named Holling Hoodhood who belives that his teacher, Mrs. Baker, hates him and is always plotting something against him. He thinks that she hates him because he is presbyterian, and he attend temple or church. In the very beginning of the story, Mrs. Baker was a little bit mean to Holling. She always made him clap erasers on Wednesdays after school when half of the class was at Hebrew school and the other half was at Catholic school. Now, she is actually being pretty nice to him, and rewards him with cream puffs on Wednesday afternoons if he does a good job on his chore. For some strange reason, Holling thinks that this is just a weird, twisted method that Mrs. Baker is using to munipulate him and that she is plotting something against him. I don't think that this is true.
I think that Mrs. Baker didn't like Holling at first because she didn't understand him and she thought that it was strange that he had no religion.  I think that now that she's gotten to know him better, she likes him more. Why else would she give him a cream puff, but not the other thirty students in the class? I don't understand why Holling is so uptight about Mrs. Baker not liking him. She's his teacher! Not his best friend or his family who kind-of have to like him.
I conclusion, this is a very good book so far. I highly recommend it for anyone who is looking for a good book to read.