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Engels
Middelbare school
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Leerjaar 4,5
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Shakespearean sonnets
Slide 1 - Slide
Lesson aims:
You can
- share your reading experiences with literary works using proper arguments (on paper as well as in a conversation/presentation).
- identify different types of literary texts and interpret them using literary terminology.
- give an outline of literary history, placing literary works in the right perspective.
Slide 2 - Slide
What is important:
* That you have read all the weekly literature assignments and have answered the follow-up questions;
* That you understand the literary devices and filled out the form;
*
Slide 3 - Slide
About Shakespeare:
* Was an English playwright, poet, and actor;
* Seen as the greatest writer in the English language and greatest dramatist.
* His works consisted of 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems.
* At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway.
Slide 4 - Slide
What is a sonnet?
Slide 5 - Mind map
Most of Shakespeare's sonnets are written in iambic pentameter. Explain what an iambic pentameter entails.
Slide 6 - Open question
How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?
A
39
B
10
C
18
D
154
Slide 7 - Quiz
Examples:
-A line of five iambic feet
-A 10-syllable rhythm of :ta -TUM ta-TUM ta-TUM ta-TUM ta-TUM
Shall
I
/ com
PARE
/ thee
TO
/ a
SUM
/ mer's
DAY
?
ta -TUM ta-TUM ta-TUM ta-TUM ta-TUM
Slide 8 - Slide
What is a quatrain?
Slide 9 - Mind map
Examples:
- Stanza or short poem containing four lines.
- Lines 2 and 4 must rhyme, Lines 1 and 3 may not rhyme.
- Variations of abab, aabb, abcb
Slide 10 - Slide
A
aabb
B
abab
C
abcb
D
abcd
Slide 11 - Quiz
Slide 12 - Video
This 1st sonnet by Shakespeare is about?
A
Loving beauty too much
B
procreation and obsession with beauty
C
Being vain and successful
D
admiring the beauty of flowers
Slide 13 - Quiz
Quatrain 1 "From fairest creatures
we desire increase" means what?
Slide 14 - Mind map
In quatrain 2 what does it say about
the young man's character?
Slide 15 - Mind map
In quatrain 3, what does Shakespeare
say about the man's beauty?
Slide 16 - Mind map
In the couplet, explain what was the duty
of the young man.
Slide 17 - Mind map
Slide 18 - Video
What is the theme of
Sonnet 12?
Slide 19 - Mind map
What does Shakespeare have doubts
about in Sonnet 12?
A
the beauty of creatures
B
if time moves too quickly
C
questioning the fair youth's beauty
D
if the young man knows what procreation is
Slide 20 - Quiz
Describe what "white" means in the sentence
"And sable curls all silvered o'er with white"?
Slide 21 - Mind map
"Save breed to brave him" means:
A
as we grow older being content of leaving offspring
B
the passing of time
C
when one is being too self-absorbed
D
death cannot be stopped except by having offspring
Slide 22 - Quiz
Slide 23 - Video
Slide 24 - Slide
Describe the mood of the speaker with the
question "Shall I compare thee to a summer's
day?"
Slide 25 - Mind map
What is the theme of Sonnet 18?
Slide 26 - Mind map
Explain what a pun is, for example in verse 2
using the word "temperate"
Slide 27 - Mind map
According to the speaker, why does the beloved's beauty last forever?
Slide 28 - Open question
Slide 29 - Video
In quatrain 1, when the speaker was separated from
his lover, with what does he compare to
this absence?
Slide 30 - Mind map
Which season of the year were
they separated?
Slide 31 - Mind map
Which season of the year were they separated?
A
end of autumn - beginning of winter
B
end of summer - beginning of autumn
C
end of winter - beginning of spring
D
end of spring - beginning of summer
Slide 32 - Quiz
Why is autumn an important season?
Slide 33 - Mind map
Widow'd wombs, dark days, freezings felt, bearing burdens are examples of:
A
kennings
B
personification
C
alliteration
D
allegory
Slide 34 - Quiz
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