1. Update your TOC:
99. Apostrophes #1
100. Free Write – Shakespeare
101. Apostrophes #2
102. Shakespeare 101
103. Apostrophes #3
104. Othello Notes
105. Apostrophes #4
106. Othello Character Notes
107. Sonnets
Tues. May 2nd, 2017
Take out your notebooks!
Take out your books!

2. Office Hours This Week
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday – 2:30
Friday

3. Class Website

4. Standards + Objectives
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI and RL Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful. (Include Shakespeare as well as other authors.)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).
Class Objectives: SWBAT-
We will learn the vocabulary of poems and sonnets
We will create reasoning and analysis to compare vocabulary to modern hip hop
We will be able to identify iambic pentameter and rhyme scheme
Class Agenda:
Standards, Objectives, Agenda, Assignments (5)
Sonnet Review (10)
Class Sonnet Writing (30)
Sonnet Worksheet (15)
Wrap up (5)

5. Page 107

6. What is a sonnet?
A sonnet is a traditional form of poetry that is typically 14 lines long and written in iambic pentameter.
A sonnet is formed by combining 3 quatrains and a couplet in a specific rhyming pattern called a rhyme scheme.
A quatrain is 4 lines in a poem that are thematically linked. A couplet is 2 lines of a poem that are thematically linked.
The couplet always comes at the end of the sonnet acting as a conclusion to the poem.
A Shakespearean or English sonnet (developed by Shakespeare himself) follows the following rhyme scheme in it’s form: abab, cdcd, efef, gg

7. Poetic “feet”
The meter of a poem is the basic rhythmic structure of the poem.
We measure the poetic meter through tracking the stressed and unstressed syllables in each line. This combination of stressed and unstressed syllables is called a poetic foot.
Poetic feet are named based on how the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables occur in a line.
For instance, iamb meter occurs when the first syllable of a poetic foot is unstressed and the second syllable is stressed.
Iambic pentameter occurs when 5 iambs (a unstressed followed by a stressed syllable) are contained in each poetic line.

8. For Homework
Please come in with three verses of your favorite songs. For this song you should write the lyrics, track the meter (stressed and unstressed syllables), and note the rhyme scheme in your notebook.

9. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 144
Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill. To win me soon to hell, my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her foul pride. And, whether that my angel be turn’d fiend, Suspect I may, yet not directly tell, But being both from me both to each friend, I guess one angel in another’s hell. Yet this shall I ne’er know, but live in doubt, Till my bad angel fire my good one out.

10. The Class Sonnet
Today you will work in groups to create a sonnet. The sonnet your group creates will count as a quiz grade for everyone in your group. Each line of your sonnet MUST contain ten syllables. You lines do not have to be in iambic pentameter, although extra credit points will be awarded for every line you do illustrate to be in iambic pentameter. By the end of the group portion of class, you must as a group have all of the remaining elements of the sonnet in your example. For example, the correct number of quatrains, couplets and the correct rhyme scheme. I am NOT expecting, with the time limit in place, for you to have a Shakespeare level sonnet, but I do expect all of the sonnet elements will be there.

11. The Class Sonnet
Your sonnet will be based around the following subject: In our Othello notes, we learned Othello and Desdemona are married in secret before the play will begin. For today, write the sonnet that either Othello OR Desdemona write to convince the other person to marry them. For this first part, take ten minutes to work on the first part of your group’s sonnet. I suggest everybody working for a few minutes to assemble a 10 syllable line independently. After each line has been completed, come together to discuss which line you would like to create the remainder of this part of the sonnet from, focusing on rhyme scheme and 10 line syllables. For the next part, work to create the next sections of your sonnet together based on the elements of a sonnet we have discussed. As you should have your initial rhyme scheme in place, it is likely easiest now to divide the work among you to complete the rest of your lines. You have 15 minutes to complete this part of the assignment.

12. The Class Sonnet
You will now be given five minutes to polish your sonnet. Make sure all the elements of the element (minus true iambic pentameter) are evident in your group’s sonnet and be sure to write your sonnet in full n the sheet of paper with all the names of the people of your group on the blank sheet I handed out at the beginning of class. I will now go to each group and collect your sonnets.

13. Please take out your sonnet worksheets.