January 8--insult one another

Sonnet 18
Sonnet 18 explanation
Journal: Write 1/2 page explaining what  the message of the 18th sonnet is.
Be sure that one of your paragraphs follows standard form:
     Topic sentence (your idea)
     Example (quote it)
     Explain how it supports your idea
     Sum up (similar to topic sentence)
Sonnet 18 Rap
Finish notes
Sonnet 29
Shakespearean insults
Watch Shakespeare in Love

Best ones from plays: Insults (see the long one from King Lear!)
Write a short note to someone insulting them in Shakespeare's style
"Thou art a knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.

Shakespeare's sonnets: Best Shakespearean Sonnets (according to me)

Words Shakespeare invented: Shakespeare's words

SONNETS
Sonnet 18 Rap
Sonnet Notes:
Shakespearean sonnet, also known as Elizabethan sonnet
(Queen Elizabeth was the queen during Shakespeares time: 1558-1603 and Romeo & J 1591)
Characteristics of Shakespearean sonnet:

• 14 lines
• 3 stanzas, 1 couplet
• stanza = paragraph
• couplet = two lines
• rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
• iambic pentameter
• meter = the rhythm of the line of poetry
• each line of a sonnet has 10 syllables and they alternate from unaccented to accented
• shall I / comPARE / thee TO / a SUM/ mer's DAY?/
• iambic means it goes ta-DAH, ta-DAH, ta-DAH, ta-DAH, ta-DAH (other poems have the accent on the first syllable, like "By the shining Big-Sea-Water," and this is trochaic instead of iambic)
• each of these units is called a "foot," and sonnets have 5 feet with 2 syllables each--a total of 10 syllables