Monday 2/16: Classwork and New Vocabulary

Period 4: Sonnet Assignment (below) Due: Wednesday.
New Vocabulary Words (below).
R&J Review Guide.
HW: Quiz on Act II tomorrow.

SONNET ASSIGNMENT

30 points

OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the sonnet form by writing a sonnet in proper sonnet format and using a traditional sonnet theme (check your notes if you’re forgotten traditional sonnet themes).

Sonnets will need to include each of the following

1) Fourteen lines
2) A rhyme scheme of ABABCDCDEFEFGG (you do not need to use true rhyme if you know other
types of rhyme such as assonance, consonance, alliteration)
3) Three quatrains and a couple
4) Ten syllables per line
5) Imagery and at least 1 metaphor, 1 example of personification, 1 simile
6) A title


VOCABULARY

Remnants

Penury

Haughty

Sepulcher

Ambiguities

Scourge

Caitiff

Apothecary

Beshrew

Peruse

Inauspicious

Amorous