- No Red Ink: Finish Tuesday’s unit, silent read when done.
- Sonnet XV: Sonnet XV & CXVI-293f68g Find the paradox!
- Time to work on your own Sonnet
- Poetry Final on Tuesday!!
Write a Sonnet in Seven Steps
- Choose a Theme or Problem. Sonnets usually explore universal elements of human life to which many people can relate (love, maturity, words of wisdom, humour, irony, frustration)
- Pick a Type of Sonnet- Shakespearean
- Write in Iambic Pentameter-or at least try to
- Organize Stanzas- 3 x quatrain + 1 couplet
- Follow a Rhyme Scheme-ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
- Incorporate a Volta- or another way of saying this, TONE SWITCH, when it is coming to the end, your tone should chang
- Use Poetic Devices-sound, comparison, word play-refer to Poetry Terminology if you forget (please don’t we’ve spent a lot of time on this)