Working on Sonnets

Today English I started writing a sonnet as a class to learn the correct steps. Then, we partnered up and started writing our own sonnets. HomeworkEnglish I Honors: Work on your sonnet.
Drawing Mistress and Rules for Sonnet

Drawing Mistress and Rules for Sonnet

Today in class we started off the day by getting with a partner and comparing last nights homework.We also started another sonnet; Sonnet 130.We got to do a fun activity which was to draw how we thought mistress looked like based on the sonnet.We also took notes on...

A New Sonnet

Today in English I class we finished up paraphrasing Sonnet 29. We also began working on Sonnet 18 and figured out what it meant and started paraphrasing it with a partner. HomeworkEnglish I Honors: You will need to finish up figuring out what Sonnet 18 was about...
First Topics and Sonnets

First Topics and Sonnets

English I Honors classes are working towards the Shakespeare unit, which we will begin next week, and we are accomplishing this through Shakespeare’s sonnets as a way to bring the poetry unit to the Romeo and Juliet unit. Today we finished up the complicated...

Sonnets and Web Site Evaluation

First and fourth periods finished up the poetry mini-unit by looking at how to write a sonnet. There’s substantial planning involved, and we went through the steps as a class. First period’s initial effort: This poem can’t write itself so I despair....