(you don’t need to write the questions, just the answers) bellringer Fill out your LEARNING PLAN first. (you don’t need to write the questions, just the answers) 1. Who are the two feuding families in “Romeo & Juliet?” 2. Who is Juliet’s cousin? What is he good at? 3. Who is really good at wordplay, friends with Romeo, and doesn’t like love stuff? 4. Where is the play set? 5. What is a sonnet?

Let’s review from yesterday Let’s review from yesterday. Please take out your sonnet papers from yesterday.

notes A sonnet is: A lyric poem containing 14 lines A Shakespearean or Elizabethan sonnet contains: Three quatrains and a rhyming couplet A quatrain is: One of three four-line stanzas in a Shakespearean sonnet. A couplet is: The final two rhyming lines in a Shakespearean sonnet. Let’s mark these things!!!

notes The Shakespearean sonnet rhyme scheme is: abab, cdcd, efef, gg HOLD UP! What’s RHYME SCHEME? Let’s figure it out… The type of meter used in Shakespearean sonnets is: iambic pentameter. The meter of a poem is: its rhythm of accented or unaccented syllables organized into patterns called feet. An iamb is: a foot consisting of two syllables, one unaccented (unstressed) and one accented (stressed). An unaccented syllable is identified with a: U

Iambic pentameter close up An iambic foot is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. The rhythm can be written as: da DUM A standard line of iambic pentameter is five iambic feet in a row: da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM

And young affection gapes to be his heir

notes Pentameter means: five feet (pent is Greek root for five). So, each line in a sonnet contains five iambs. 10 syllables per line in a Shakespearean sonnet *Why iambic pentameter: -  Because it reflects the natural rhythm of the human heartbeat -  Because it is the rhythm most common to our natural way of speaking.

Sonnet 18 What kinds of thoughts are running through your head when you see your crush walk down the hallway at school? Do you ever feel nervous? What if I told you I have a sure-fire way to get rid of that nervousness and impress anyone who came your way? Well…you can thank good ‘ol Shakespeare (and me, because obviously a deserve a lot of your praise and thanks)

homework 1. Review the characters in R & J 2. Review your notes on sonnets. You will be responsible for knowing all of the bolded terms.