Monday, 11.17 - Shakespeare through "The Sonnet"


  • 3PO
  • GUM: Exercise 2: Parallel Structure. Please make any corrections to totally jacked-up sentences by writing out the correct version in your journal. Do ten.
  • When you finish, please work on your poetry memorization.
  • Reno to check HW while you're working on GUM.
  • 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 GC (Google Classroom)  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 
HW: 

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