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bellringer. Fill out your LEARNING PLAN first. (you don’t need to write the questions, just the answers) 1 . Who are the two feuding families in “Romeo & Juliet?” 2. Who is Juliet’s cousin? What is he good at?
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bellringer Fill out your LEARNING PLAN first. (you don’t need to write the questions, just the answers) • 1. Who are the two feuding families in “Romeo & Juliet?” • 2. Who is Juliet’s cousin? What is he good at? • 3. Who is really good at wordplay, friends with Romeo, and doesn’t like love stuff? • 4. Where is the play set? • 5. What is a sonnet?
Let’s review from yesterday. Please take out your sonnet papers from yesterday.
notes • A sonnet is: • A lyric poem containing 14 lines • A Shakespearean or Elizabethan sonnet contains: • Three quatrains and a rhyming couplet • A quatrain is: One of three four-line stanzas in a Shakespearean sonnet. • A couplet is: The final two rhyming lines in a Shakespearean sonnet. • Let’s mark these things!!!
notes • The Shakespearean sonnet rhyme scheme is: abab, cdcd, efef, gg • HOLD UP! What’s RHYME SCHEME? Let’s figure it out… • The type of meter used in Shakespearean sonnets is: • iambic pentameter. • The meter of a poem is: • its rhythm of accented or unaccented syllables organized into patterns called feet. • An iamb is: • a foot consisting of two syllables, one unaccented (unstressed) and one accented (stressed). An unaccented syllable is identified with a: U
Iambic pentameter close up • An iambic foot is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. The rhythm can be written as: • da DUM • A standard line of iambic pentameter is five iambic feet in a row: • da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM
notes • Pentameter means: • five feet (pent is Greek root for five). So, each line in a sonnet contains five iambs. • 10 syllables per line in a Shakespearean sonnet • *Why iambic pentameter: • - Because it reflects the natural rhythm of the human heartbeat • - Because it is the rhythm most common to our natural way of speaking.
Sonnet 18 • What kinds of thoughts are running through your head when you see your crush walk down the hallway at school? • Do you ever feel nervous? • What if I told you I have a sure-fire way to get rid of that nervousness and impress anyone who came your way? Well…you can thank good ‘ol Shakespeare (and me, because obviously a deserve a lot of your praise and thanks)
homework • 1. Review the characters in R & J • 2. Review your notes on sonnets. You will be responsible for knowing all of the bolded terms.