Iambic Pentameter is brilliant!

Complete both assignments for class on Monday, 01/14/08

Read for HW
"How Shakespeare Saw the World"
It's the first page of your folder.
You do NOT need to complete the activity.

Sonnet Activity (Complete tasks on on the worksheet--no need to rewrite)
1. Read Sonnet 130
2. Label the Rhyme Scheme
3. Label Quatrains 1, 2, 3
4. Label the Rhyming Couplet
5. In Quatrain 1 label the iambs
6. In Quatrains 2 and 3, label the iambic pentameter.
7. Paraphrasing

• If your last name starts with A-F: paraphrase quatrain 1
• If your last name starts with G-N: paraphrase quatrain 2
• If your last name starts with O-R: paraphrase quatrain 3
• If your last name starts with S-Z: paraphrase the Rhyming Couplet
  

Notes from Class:

Shakespearean Sonnet
A poem containing 3 specific elements:
1) four stanzas of three quatrains and a final couplet
2) with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
3) composed in iambic pentameter

Element 1: Quatrains and Rhyming Couplet
& Element 2: Rhyme Scheme

















Element 3: Iambic Pentameter