webquest assignment final (2)

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Webquest

SONNETS

8th Grade

English

Eric Davis



Introduction

During this assignment, you will be learning about different forms of sonnets. You will learn how to

write a sonnet of your own, using the proper rhyme and meter.

Task

1) Read through the various sources of information provided. Learn how to recognize a sonnet that

is Petrarchan, Shakespearean, or Spenserian. Learn the parts and layout of sonnets, the rhyme

schemes (and variants) of sonnets, and the rhythmic structure of sonnets.

• Sonnet forms:

http://poemshape.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/what-is-shakespearean-spenserian-amp-

petrarchan-sonnets/

• Shakespeare’s sonnets (if you want to read more of them)

http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/

• SERACH THE WEB ON YOUR OWN and find different sonnets of different types from

different authors. Type in any obvious criteria (Petrarch + sonnet, Italian sonnet, Spenser +

sonnet, Spenserian sonnet, etc.) and you will find a wealth of information.

• Excellent audio file. Kenneth Brannagh reading “When to the sessions of sweet silent

thought”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWVvlZdLTDA&feature=related

2) Read through the various sources of information about rhyme and meter in poetry

• http://poemshape.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/what-is-iambic-pentameter-the-basics/

• rhyme scheme, rhythm, and meter PPT [Search this, as is. I could not add the complete

link – partial link below]

eocweb.rusd.k12.ca.us/Rhyme%20with%20wav%20files/Rhyme...

• Wikipedia actually has some good information on this. Make sure you focus on theappropriate sections of the article, those related to English poetry

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter_(poetry)#Metrical_systems

• See typed information at the bottom of this file (info for ‘Ring Out, Wild Bells’ lesson)

http://poemshape.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/what-is-shakespearean-spenserian-amp-petrarchan-sonnets/




http://poemshape.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/what-is-iambic-pentameter-the-basics/








Process

1) Considering the information you’ve been given, identify each of the following sonnets as

Petrarchan, Shakespearean or Spenserian. SEE ATTACHMENT ONE

E-mail or print and submit to teacher.

2) Do the exercise (found at end of this file) entitled ‘An Exercise in Rhythm’ (using Tennyson’s

poem, ‘Ring Out, Wild Bells’).

E-mail, or print and submit completed form to

teacher.

SEE ATTACHMENT TWO

3) On the web, find at least one more sonnet that follows each pattern. Do not use the same sonnets

that have been provided as examples. Save these sonnets in a personal file, and label them

appropriately. E-mail or print and submit to teacher.

4) Look again at the information from the ‘Ring Out, Wild Bells’ poem.

a) Select one sonnet (that you found for #3), and mark each line of scansion, and each syllable

as stressed or unstressed.

b) Label the parts of the sonnet (octave and sestet) and show how the sonnet you chose does or

does not follow the suggested ‘rules’ for this division.




5) Write a sonnet of your own. You may choose any kind of sonnet you wish. You must make sure

you follow the rhyme scheme and have the appropriate rhythmic structure.


6) RELAX. And WATCH THIS. ROWN ATKINSON & HUGH LAURIE do SHAKESPEARE.

No assignment (other than to relax). It’s just funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKXQbIBt9C8&feature=related

Evaluation

(process pt 1) Sonnets incorrectly identified correctly indentified

(process pt 2) Exercise in Rhythm worksheet - graded w/ percentage (0 – 100%/0

(process pt 3) Sonnet incorrectly marked correctly marked

(process pt 4) Sonnets Incorrect sonnets found, and labeled incorrectly

Correct sonnets found, but labeled incorrectly

Correct sonnets found, labeled correctly

(PROCESS PART 5)

WRITING AN ORIGINAL SONNET

Consistency

did not write in the correct form

followed pattern, w/ errors

followed pattern properly

Rhythm





made no effort at having a rhythmic structure

some effort put forth, but rhythm not correct

very good use of rhythm, few errors

perfect rhythmic structure

Form

Improper rhyme scheme proper rhyme scheme

No recognizable octave or sestet recognizable octave or sestet

Parts of sonnet do not perform appropriate function Parts of sonnet perform appropriate function

Spelling, Grammar & Punctuation

Many errors few errors no errors

Literary Quality

Low quality (no effort) fair good excellent



Information Sources

http://poemshape.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/what-is-shakespearean-spenserian-amp-petrarchan-

sonnets/




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter_(poetry)#Metrical_systems


http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16131

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzJb8QDXmxU

Conclusion

You have learned to identify and analyze the chief characteristics of three different types of

sonnets. You have learned about rhyme and meter in poetry. Most importantly, you have learned

how to write a sonnet of your very own.

Keep reading! Keep writing!



















ATTACHMENT ONE

1) Type of sonnet:

________________________________

____

The rolling wheel that runneth often round,

The hardest steel in tract of time doth tear:

And drizling drops that often do redound,The firmest flint doth in continuance wear.

Yet cannot I, with many a dropping tear,And long entreaty, soften her hard heart:

That she will once vouchsafe my plaint to hear,

Or look with pity on my painful smart.

But when I plead, she bids me play my part,

And when I weep, she says tears are but water:

And when I sigh, she says I know the art,

And when I wail she turns herself to laughter.

So do I weep, and wail, and plead in vain,

Whiles she as steel and flint doth still remain.

2) Type of sonnet:

________________________________

____

Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,

And each doth good turns now unto the other:

When that mine eye is famish'd for a look,

Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother,

With my love's picture then my eye doth feast,

And to the painted banquet bids my heart;

Another time mine eye is my heart's guest,And in his thoughts of love doth share a part:

So, either by thy picture or my love,

Thy self away, art present still with me;

For thou not farther than my thoughts canst

move,

And I am still with them, and they with thee;

Or, if they sleep, thy picture in my sightAwakes my heart, to heart's and eyes' delight

3) Type of sonnet:

________________________________ ____

Those eyes, 'neath which my passionate rapture

rose,

The arms, hands, feet, the beauty that erewhile

Could my own soul from its own self beguile,

And in a separate world of dreams enclose,

The hair's bright tresses, full of golden glows,

And the soft lightning of the angelic smile

That changed this earth to some celestial isle,

Are now but dust, poor dust, that nothing knows.

And yet I live! Myself I grieve and scorn,

Left dark without the light I loved in vain,

Adrift in tempest on a bark forlorn;

Dead is the source of all my amorous strain,

Dry is the channel of my thoughts outworn,

And my sad harp can sound but notes of pain.

4) Type of sonnet:

________________________________

____

Mine eye hath played the painter and hath

steeled,

Thy beauty's form in table of my heart;

My body is the frame wherein 'tis held,

And perspective that is best painter's art.

For through the painter must you see his skill,To find where your true image pictured lies,

Which in my bosom's shop is hanging still,

That hath his windows glazed with thine eyes.

Now see what good turns eyes for eyes have

done:

Mine eyes have drawn thy shape, and thine for

me

Are windows to my breast, where-through the

sun

Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee;

Yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art,

They draw but what they see, know not the heart

5) Type of sonnet:

________________________________

____

Oft have I seen at some cathedral door

A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat,

Lay down his burden, and with reverent

feet

Enter, and cross himself, and on the floorKneel to repeat his paternoster o'er;

Far off the noises of the world retreat;

The loud vociferations of the street

Become an undistinguishable roar.

So, as I enter here from day to day,

And leave my burden at this minster

gate,

Kneeling in prayer, and not ashamed to

pray,



The tumult of the time disconsolate To inarticulate murmurs dies away,

While the eternal ages watch and wait.

ATTACHMENT TWO

An Exercise in Rhythm‘RING OUT, WILD BELLS’

Consider the terms below.

Foot- the metrical unit in poetry, consisting of one accented syllable and one or more unaccented

syllables

Iamb - unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

Tetra - four

Meter - the sequence of relationships of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line

Tetrameter - four feet

Scansion – division of a line into its metrical feet ( | )Quatrain – a stanza consisting of four lines

Rhyme Scheme – a poems pattern of rhyme (denoted using letters of the alphabet ABAB, ABBA, etc.)

What is the rhyme scheme of the excerpt below? __________________________________________

Draw vertical ( | ) lines (scansion) between the feet of the following lines of verse. Your definition of

‘tetrameter’ will help you determine the number of lines you will need to draw. Once you have divided

each line, mark each accented and unaccented syllables.

IF YOU LIKE,You can find the full text in your textbook, or here: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16131

There is a video of a choir singing this poem at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzJb8QDXmxU






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