Renaissance Unit

Your major tasks, other than short writes are to write a sonnet, and to write a scene from MacBeth (modernized) and act it out in class with a group.

We'll be reading many sonnets and MacBeth, by William Shakespeare.

Also: learn your literary terms, your vocabulary for SAT, and keep reading.

CLASS

BLOCK 1 & 5

Essential Question:What is the legacy for us of the Renaissance period?

Objectives:Students read and analyze sonnets, read section of Macbeth, write a sonnet in modern terms

write a scene from Macbeth (modernized) in groups

Key Terms: Sonnet, rhyme scheme, meter, sacred, secular, humanism, metaphysical, iambic pentameter, octave, sestet, couplet

Bell Work: Write a short paragraph about the differences between the Medieval Period of literature and the Renaissance, as discussed in the homework reading.

Lesson Activities:

Review bellwork.

Art, p. 239 still life, John Donne, p.239 (secular and sacred) Discuss Thomas More

Read "Development of the sonnet" p. 242-3

Italian (Petrarchan), English, Spenserian sonnet

Iambic pentameter

paraphrase the sonnet, discuss

Read p. 256,257, Spenserian sonnet, fire and ice

Begin to collect couplets

"Such is the power of love in gentle mind,

That it can alter all the course of kind" Spenser, Sonnet 30

Sonnet 75, P 258 Spenser

Begin Dead Poets Society

Macbeth next week.

Practice sonnets

College classes:

Review of British Literature overviews (2)

Sonnets

Dead Poets Society

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?

P. 281-300 Shakespeare’s songs and soliloquies!

Sonnet to “copy” Sonnet 29, Shakespeare

When in despair with Bureauracracy’s lies

I cry, bemoaning stupid legislates,

And text in vain to colleagues more than sighs,

And whine to those near me this wretched STATE,

Wishing I alone could write curriculum guides

Instead of those who rule from empty pates

Rejecting others’ work instead of my own writes

Content to gripe without a hint of working late,

Yet , these hateful thoughts create insights

Until I finally think on you, and then I feel

More like an osprey soaring high above

The Gulf to spot a new and fresher meal,

I love this teaching life with all its quirks

And I’d not choose another place to work.