Worked example · English · Year 9
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A completed six-post Verona Voice feed for Romeo and Juliet, Act 3 Scene 1, with the community note and the pupil's own layout sketch. Show it after the planning grid is filled in. Every handle below is a character from the play — there are no real accounts anywhere in this task.
@benvolio_montague · 13:02
Heat's up, streets are full of Capulets and we are three drinks past sensible. I want to go home. Mercutio thinks that's funny. It will not be funny by teatime.
Post 1 rewrites Benvolio's "I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire" into a voice a Year 9 reader recognises, and the last line quietly foreshadows. Evidences criteria 1 and 3.
@tybalt_ofcapulet · 13:14
Looking for Romeo. Not to talk. "Thou art a villain" — and he can have that to his face, in the square, whenever he's brave enough to stand in it.
Anchored to a direct quotation from the scene and kept in Tybalt's register: short, public, daring someone. Criteria 2 and 3.
@romeo_m · 13:17
I can't explain today. I have a reason to love the name Capulet that nobody here would believe. "I do protest I never injured thee." Walk away, Tybalt. Please.
Uses the marriage the audience knows about but the other characters do not — dramatic irony carried into the post. Criterion 3.
@mercutio · 13:21
"O calm, dishonourable, vile submission!" My best friend just apologised to a man who called him a villain. Fine. "Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?"
Two quotations in one post, and the escalation is visible: Mercutio fights because Romeo will not. Criteria 1 and 2.
@mercutio · 13:26
"'Tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve." Ask for me tomorrow. "A plague o' both your houses."
Mercutio jokes while dying, which is the single hardest thing to get right in this task and is exactly what the third criterion asks for. The repeated handle is deliberate: the feed shows one voice going out.
@prince_escalus · 15:40
Two men dead in my streets before three o'clock. I have heard Benvolio and I have heard the Capulets. Romeo Montague killed Tybalt: "Immediately we do exile him hence."
Correct order, correct outcome, and the Prince's voice is official rather than emotional. Criterion 1.
Community note on @lady_capulet's reply ("Romeo slew Tybalt in cold blood, unprovoked"):
This claim is contradicted by the scene. Tybalt started the confrontation by calling Romeo "a villain", and Romeo twice refused to fight — "I do protest I never injured thee." Romeo only drew after Tybalt had killed Mercutio and returned to the square. Lady Capulet was not present at the fight; her own line, "He is a kinsman to the Montague; / Affection makes him false, he speaks not true", shows she is arguing from family loyalty rather than from what she saw. The Prince heard both accounts and exiled Romeo instead of executing him, which is not what he would have done for an unprovoked killing.
Meets criterion 4: it names the claim, quotes two lines against it, points out the speaker was absent, and uses the Prince's actual sentence as corroborating evidence.
Meets criterion 5: a reader can tell at a glance who posted, when, in what order, and which text is a correction rather than a post.