As Bobby is reading "Romeo and Juliet" in Language Arts, our next project will be writing a report on the life of Shakespeare, the Elizabethan Theatre, and the staging of" Romeo and Juliet " in Elizabethan times. To begin the project, we are conducting research from the famed Folger Library in DC which is on line, and then we will view a portion of a production of "Romeo and Juliet" on a reconstructed Globe Theatre so that Bobby can apply his research and see how the play might have looked in 1597. For today, we read material on Shakespeare's life from the Folger Library and highlighted critical elements, and then looked at video material from the Shakespeare Trust in Stratford-Upon -Avon .This material explored Shakespeare's birthplace, his grammar school, and Ann Hathaway's cottage. I provided some interesting stories on life in the 1590s that I learned when I visited these sites. We will continue highlighting and making notes on our research throughout the week before we begin writing.