P&P
- Today we will spend some time looking at a very popular poetic form, the form you have all been demanding that I teach. I have heard your pleas and pleases, and after today I want to hear your "thank yous." Thus I give you a premature "you're welcome" to this blundering in the index to the book and volume of . . . the sonnet.
- Dig this sonnet flave for a bit: go to Focus and open the document entitled "The Sonnet" and read through the first two pages together. Now let's be sure you copy down and define the literary terms on the blog that you will need to know to study the sonnet. Define the terms below and discuss Shakespearean sonnet form using Sonnet 18 on the document you've opened.
- Sonnet (what is its etymology?)
- Petrarchan (Italian)
- Shakespearean (English)
- quatrain
- octave
- couplet
- volta (the "turn")
- iambic pentameter
- Here are poetic feet you ought to know
- Let's get back into Hamlet
HW: Go and give thanks for all God has showered upon you. Enjoy vacation! But for those who want to plan ahead, please see the following:
- Sight Words quiz 2 - right-hand column of handout on Focus (Quiz on the Tuesday we return from vacation)
- J9 (due Wed we return)
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