1. Analyzing puritan plain style
Mr. Verlin
Overbrook High School
October 6, 2015
Analyzing puritan plain style

2. Do Now: Brainstorming
List at least 5 things which are necessary to have a home.
Write 3 sentences about what it would be like if you lost all of these due to a fire. Include any personal experiences you may have.

3. Objectives:
The students will be able to characterize a great personal loss in order to write a Petrarchan sonnet.

4. Review: Anchors and QNTs
Describe
Theme
Quote
Note
Thought

5. Focus Lesson: …Plain Style
Direct Instruction: Academic Vocabulary
Characterize: distinguishing trains, qualities and properties
Rhyme: repetition of stressed vowel sounds
Inversion: irregular word order
Petrarchan Sonnet (simplified)
14 lines (8-line stanza + 6-line stanza)
Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcd
Guided Practice: Setting a Purpose for Reading (p. 29)
Preview: title and picture
Purpose: identification of line numbers where Bradstreet finds her inner strength to face great personal loss
Small Groups: “…Burning of Our House…” (p. 29)
Divide into your small groups.
1 QNT addressing the reading purpose (30 classwork points).

6. Homework: Petrarchan Sonnet
Write a Petrarchan sonnet about a personal loss. Requirements:
Due in 1 week (20 project points)
14 lines
8-line stanza: establish facts (5Ws)
6-line stanza: establish feelings
Bonus: rhyme scheme
8-line stanza: abbaabba
6-line stanza: cdcdcd