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Task Description

The Mission: Shakespeare calls Romeo and Juliet star‑crossed (Fate). Your job is to test whether human Choice—or the lack of it—drives the tragedy.

Part 2: The SCAMPER Toolkit (The Strategy): Choose ONE act or ONE major turning point. Then use SCAMPER prompts to “hack” the play’s logic.

Target scene/moment:

Use each of the SCAMPER letters to make your recommendations.You will type out a brief description for each letter in the corresponding box.

Reference questions are on the next few slides.

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Substitute Reference Questions

Combine Reference Questions

Adapt Reference Questions

Maximize/Minimize Reference Questions

NOTE: In these questions apply the opposite of the words for magnify to minimize.

Put to Other Uses Reference Questions

Eliminate Reference Questions

Rearrange/Reverse Reference Questions

List Group 1 Members: Blake Anthony Makayla Akua	Substitute (S): Substitute Friar Lawrence’s decision to help Romeo and Juliet with indifference. If Friar Lawrence didn’t give Romeo the idea to go see Juliet they would’ve never spoke again.	Combine (C): Combine Tybalt and Benvolio’s intentions to try and keep Romeo away from Juliet instead of working against each other. If that happened Romeo and Juliet would’ve never met again.	Adapt (A): Adapt Romeo’s decision to run away from Tybalt instead of fighting him, if this happened Romeo wouldn’t have been banished.
Modify(M): Modify the role of Tybalt. If Romeo had killed some random man he wouldn’t have been banished. Romeo comes from a highly rich family, killing an unknown person wouldn’t be hard to cover up.	Put to Other Uses (P): The Role of the Prince could be put to use. The Prince determines what goes around in that place. If he made a rule or law that the two families were not allowed to be enemies Romeo and Juliet could be in love in pace.	Eliminate (E): If we eliminate the fact that Juliet was engaged to someone else nothing would have changed. Their families would still be enemies so they could never get together anyways.	Rearrange(R): Rearrange the order of events of, Romeo talking to Friar Lawrence and Romeo killing Tybalt. If Romeo killed Tybalt after taking his advice to talk to Juliet he would’ve broken Juliet’s trust and she most likely would’ve fell out of love.

List Group 2 Members: Amani, Jayme, Trason, Zion, Corionna	Substitute (S) Juliet's love was replaced by Rosaline's love. Rosaline would have been equally in love with Romeo, and Juliet would have never been in the picture to begin with.	Combine (C) If the friar had told the king about the affair and the soon to be marriage, things could have ended quickly/ differently instead of the two dying( Romeo & Juliet.	Adapt (A) To solve the family feud, the characters could adapt a "Public Relations" strategy. Instead of a secret wedding, they could have staged a public engagement
Minimize (M) Dramatic language Maximize His love for Rosaline Modify The party hosted by Capulets.	Put to Other Uses (P) If the party where Juliet and Romeo met at never happen it would reduce the chance of them meeting	Eliminate (E) If we remove Juliet the tragedy will not occur because Romeo wouldn’t be driven by his desirable love for a girl he couldn’t be with.	Rearrange/Reverse ® Romeo commits suicide when he eventually finds out about Juliet’s secret identity, because he knows he could never truly be with her.

List Group 3 Members:	Substitute (S) We can substitute ]	Combine (C)	Adapt (A)
Minimize (M) Maximize Modify	Put to Other Uses (P)	Eliminate (E)	Rearrange/Reverse ®

List Group 4 Members: Tavarius Cook Brayden Wallace Kameron Stinson	Substitute (S) Romeo and Rosalina fall in love instead of juliet.	Combine (C) Combine their names into Juliet Romeo-Capulet	Adapt (A) Romeo listens to his dream/vision and doesn’t go to the party
Minimize (M) Reducing the intensity of the two families feud. Maximize Romeo was more mature. Modify The Capulets throw a party to celebrate the engagement of Romeo and Juliet.	Put to Other Uses (P) Use the story to signify the dangers of obsessive or impulsive love	Eliminate (E) We eliminate their heritage so they are no longer technical enemies	Rearrange/Reverse® Juliet is an Montague and romeo is a Capulet.

List Group 5 Members: Chloe Browning Alyanna Williams Naomi Franklin Amarii Davis	Substitute (S) Juliet uses the fake poison on her family instead of herself, so she can run away without being noticed, assuming she’s kidnapped.	Combine (C) Friar Lawrence and Capulet worked together to ensure that Juliet marries to Paris.	Adapt (A) Juliet finds a way to banish herself after she finds out the wedding with Paris she has is pushed up.
Minimize/Minimize // Modify (M) The pressure from Juliet’s fear thinking about whether it’s poison or not is intensified.	Put to Other Uses (P) Capulet pushes the wedding up, so he can kill Juliet faster, and frames it on Paris for her death.	Eliminate (E) Juliet never goes to Friar for advice.	Rearrange/Reverse ® Juliet goes to the nurse about advice about marrying Paris, and the nurse comes up with a plan to kill him.

ACT IV