Today in class we learned about meters. not the meter like a meter stick, but a meter in poem. meters in a poem are defined as, the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line. The stressed meter looks like this

/
this the unstressed looks like this

u
this.  We then read  Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare. It was a love poem. That’s how we ended our day.

Homework

• page 615 (1-4)
• then, do the timed wrighting  on that same page and be sure and write it in your journal