Part 4 of your poetry project was due today. If you did not turn it in, or didn't turn it in with the rest of the project, please do so next week (you will not receive full credit). Many of you have been asking me about your grades — I hope to have more information for you next week.
Today, we took notes on the sounds of poetry (overhead notes) and applied them to a Shakespearean sonnet. Specifically, we looked at the number and pattern of syllables (stressed and unstressed) as well as the rhyme scheme. Homework: Write a sonnet of your own. You must use the rhyme scheme as determined in class today. Each line must have 10 syllables each. Try to keep each line to the pattern of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (you may not be able to do so all the way through the poem). In Period 4, I had some students leave early for the assembly, so here is the rhyme scheme for your class:
A - apple
B - cat
A - Snapple™
B - rat
C - bag
D - banana
C - snag
D - Anna
E - grass
F - floor
E - class
F - gore
G - face
G - mace
Have a good weekend.
