1. Sonnets, Writing, and Discovery
Thursday, January 14
Sonnets, Writing, and Discovery

2. Questions
Comp Ntbk
“Those Winter Sundays” Prompt Review
Sonnet Packet
Sonnet Project
Student Writing Conferences

3. Comp Ntbk:
Kurt Vonnegut “Word Progression”

4. cardiac arrest
mountain
ballerina
despair

5. “Those Winter Sundays”
Robert Hayden

6. Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he’d call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,
Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?

7. Title Those Winter Sundays Multiple Past Cold/Dark Ice/Snow
Quiet/Sleep/Death
Sundays
Day of rest
Religion/Christianity
Father-Son Allusions

8. Stanza 1 Rhythm/meter Consonance Alliteration Enjambment Z, K, B too
Word Choice
Strategies
too
blueblack cold
cracked hands…ached
weekday weather
banked fires blaze
No one ever thanked him.
Rhythm/meter
Consonance
Z, K, B
Alliteration
Enjambment

9. Stanza 2 cold splintering, breaking rooms…warm slowly…fearing
Word Choice
Strategies
cold splintering, breaking
rooms…warm
slowly…fearing
chronic angers
Allusions
Consonance
Enjambment
Free verse

10. Stanza 3 Juxtaposition Repetition Consonance Enjambment
Word Choice
Strategies
speaking indifferently
driven out cold
polished shoes
What did I know
love’s austere and lonely offices
Juxtaposition
Repetition
Consonance
Enjambment

11. Conclusions Free verse Sonnet Father-Son relationships
14 lines
Trochaic pentameter
Iambic pentameter
Other ___meter
Turn at line 10
Father-Son relationships
Sacrifice/Suffering
“Love hurts”

12. Message
In a parent/child relationship (especially a father- son), lack of understanding can create unmet emotional needs in children that can lead to guilt and regret that surfaces later in life, making forgiveness difficult and redemption improbable.

13. Connection: “My Papa’s Waltz,” Theodore Roethke
The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother's countenance Could not unfrown itself.
The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle. You beat time on my head With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed Still clinging to your shirt.

14. Sonnets

15. Sonnet Packet “Sonnet,” Billy Collins
Notes
Rhyme
Types
Meaning
Tone
“Sonnet,” Billy Collins
“Nuns Fret Not…,” William Wordsworth
“Sonnet 116,” William Shakespeare
“Whoso List to Hunt,” Thomas Wyatt
“Sonnet 18,” William Shakespeare
“One Day I Wrote Her,” Edmund Spenser

16. Sonnet Packet (2) Shakespeare’s Sonnets Sonnet Project
While students working on own Sonnet Project, I will begin Student Writing Conferences.
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet Project
Find Sonnet for project
Clean Copy
Sonnet Type & Rhyme
Rhythm & Meter
Vocabulary
Friday: Sonnet Packet pp. 6-7

17. For Friday Comp Ntbk: Hemingway Iceberg “___ Is About” Draft 2
Sonnet Packet pages 6-7
Sonnet Project for Tuesday (Clean Copy through Vocabulary)