Shakespeare's Sonnets

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Shakespearean sonnets

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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.

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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;

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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. 

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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      / comPARE / thee TO /  a SUM      / mer's DAY
ta -TUM     ta-TUM       ta-TUM       ta-TUM         ta-TUM


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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


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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