1. Day 43-Shakespearean and Elizabethan background; Sonnet study

2. October 30th AGENDA Warm-up Objectives/Essential Questions Elizabethan Background/Shakespeare in Love Petrarchan Sonnet Notes and Reading Elizabethan Jigsaw Closure

3. Warm-up: Sonnet Part II
English Sonnets feature the following structural conventions:
14 Lines composed of 3 quatrains (4 line stanza and a couplet at the conclusion).
The 1st quatrain often reflects on some conflict, hardship, or issue.
The quatrains utilize an CDCD, end-line rhyme scheme.
Each line uses iambic pentameter as its meter (pace, rhythm, or tempo) featuring 10 syllables.
“Modern” Examples Assigment:
These lips of mine, that yet need common fare: Write a SECOND sonnet quatrain elaborating on a conflict, hardship, or issue Can thus they use most of their pow’r to taste, you face following the criteria listed above for the English Sonnet Structure. When they have savored lips beyond compare? Make sure quatrains are ABAB, end-line rhymed lines in iambic Why go these senses to such senseless waste? pentameter (hint: count your syllables).

4. OBJECTIVES
RECOGNIZE and APPLY standard conventions of the English (Shakespearean) Sonnet structure.
READ and INTERPRET Italian (Petrarchan) sonnets.
RESEARCH and RELATE historical and cultural context of the Renaissance time period to the literature.

5. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
What are the conventions of an English sonnet? How did the Italian sonnets inspire the form?
What are the common themes of the Petrarchan sonnets?
What are some of the obstacles that Shakespeare faced as a playwright in the Elizabethan Theatre and how does Tom Stoppard’s Shakespeare in Love reflect the irony of the age?

6. English (Spenserian) Sonnets
Read the “About the Author” section on Sir Edmund Spenser on p. 318 and summarize the main points on the notes outline.
Read the “Poetic Forms” section on p and summarize the main points on the notes outline.
Read “Sonnet 30” and “Sonnet 75” (pp ).
Answer the “After Reading” questions on p on the notes outline.

7. Renaissance Jigsaw
Log on to Canvas with your group of FOUR to review the Jigsaw Subjects.
Divide the subjects up and begin researching your assigned subject area.
Begin developing a “presentation outline” using the template provided.
Jigsaws will be due Thursday, November 2nd.

8. Shakespeare in Love and the Elizabethan Theatre
Released in 1998 (but set in 1593)
Won 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Screenplay
Written by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman
Directed by John Madden (No, not that John Madden)
Best described as realistic or historical fiction, featuring real historical figures and events combined with fictional circumstances.
Relevant themes include Elizabethan class structure, Elizabethan theatre, women’s roles in society (and the theatre), the ego of actors, the business of the theatre, and romantic complications.
Assignment: View Part I of Shakespeare in Love and answer the study guide question on CANVAS. Take notes on ironic elements throughout.

9. Shakespeare in the Classroom
Go to Canvas for assignment
View the background documentary “Shakespeare in the Classroom”
Respond to the “Video Guide” questions

10. Review your notes on irony from Shakespeare in Love.
Closure
Review your notes on irony from Shakespeare in Love.
Discuss what scenes, characters, or lines can be considered ironic (detail the type of irony).
Discuss the humor derived from the use of irony.