Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Thursday, December 11 - Allusion / Imagery / Sonnet

Objective: By the end of class, students will identify poetic devices (allusions, imagery, rhyme, etc) and characteristics of a sonnet in order to determine theme and prepare for the Keystone exam.

DO NOW

To be collected - 40 points

Turn to page 309 in soft holt reader and follow directions to complete the paragraph at bottom (choose a few lines from the poem "Same Song...."). Write it like you would a constructed response restating, using direct examples from the poem, explaining and concluding. 

Direct Instruction

The SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET CONSISTS OF :

14 lines with a specific rhyme scheme that always ends with the last two lines rhyming. It is broken down as follows:

Three Quatrains (four-line rhyming stanzas) and a couplet (a pair of rhyming lines). The rhyme scheme is ALWAYS:

ABAB / CDCD / EFEF / GG

Guided

Page 310 - soft holt reader - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? 


View Sonnet 18 and analysis

Independent

Work in pairs or independently:

Complete page 311and 313 in soft holt reader on separate piece of paper. Be sure to put the main ideas in your OWN words.

Check for understanding


Closure

Review alliteration, imagery, sonnets, similes, metaphors, alliteration and THEME for test tomorrow.

Exit Pass

When looking for theme in a poem, short fiction or non-fiction (different genres), what is one good way to identify it?





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