Block Day: Savvy Sonneteers!

* Open

• Grammar: Copy and correct the following lines
• "Shall I compare thee to a summers day/ thou art more lovly and more temprate" (1-2). 

* Sonnet Work

• The Sonnet Defined
• Meter Defined 
• Wheeler on Feet
• Wheeler on Scanning
• Examples
• Petrarch
• "Psalm 150 "
• Shakespeare  
• Sonnet CXXX
• Sonnet XVIII
• Sonnet XII (and song, perhaps)
• Christina Rossetti
• Robert Frost
• Here are a couple from Mr. Renault
• Later, perhaps
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Billy Collins

* Journal 12

• Copy a poem by hand that you like from a poet. 
• Compose your own poem using your selected poem for inspiration.
• This may be handwritten or typed. 

HW: J12 due Tuesday