The Lazy Sonnet and other activities (?)

Melissa: I loved that you had students up on their feet with props yesterday. I think it would be good to have a post (that everyone can edit/add to) with day-to-day Shakespeare activities. How do you check for comprehension? What's a new way of summarizing a scene? Quick intro activities that worked well? Spice things up? etc.

Here's one I just came across:

The Lazy Sonnet
Have students write a 14-word sonnet summarazing an act, where the final couplet rhymes.
This could also be done for a scene. Ask them to focus on character, incident and theme.

For example, Act I, R&J:

Capulet
hates
Montague.
Montague
hates
Capulet.
Families
fight.
Citizens
cheer.
Prince
comes.
Double
trouble.

Willy S Help from Folger

Since our Folger books aren't arriving until next fall, check out their amazing website of resources for various play.
MB: Here´s R&J.
Melissa: Here's Midsummer. 
Click on Lesson Plan Archives to find lots of ideas.