Assignments for Week # 10 ENL 121 (Vavra)
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Due In-class
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M/T
Mar. 13/14
W10A		 Be prepared to take Cornell Notes.

1. In Writing about Literature, study the Additional Concepts for Poetry. [These should be on pages 32-36.] Pay special attention to the explanation of "Sonnet."

2. Shakespeare, "Sonnet # 73" (Click here for a copy of the Sonnet.) 
Study Questions:
1) Is this an Italian or an English sonnet?  Justify your choice, by explaining how the rhyme scheme and internal structure are either Italian or English.
2) What is the major idea of each part of the poem? 3) Could the parts of this sonnet be put in a different order? Why, or why not? 4) To whom is the speaker speaking? 5) What is the theme of the poem?

3. Gerard Manley Hopkins' "God's Grandeur"
Study Questions: Is this an Italian or an English sonnet? Justify your choice, by explaining how the rhyme scheme and internal structure are either Italian or English.
Paraphrase the poem. What is the major idea of each part of the poem? What is the theme of the poem? 

 Collect Cornell Notes?

Quiz?

Discuss the two sonnets
W/Th
Mar. 15/16
W10B		 Be prepared to take Cornell Notes.

1. Bring to class a draft of an  essay on foils in Hamlet or A Doll's House. If you write about A Doll's House, it will be a draft for MP # 2.

2. Study: Robert Frost's "Design."Is this sonnet Italian, English, or a mix? Justify your choice, by explaining how the rhyme scheme and internal structure are either Italian or English. What is the theme of the poem?

 Collect Cornell Notes?

Questions?

Discuss and then collect the draft essays.

Quiz on "Design"

Discuss "Design"
 
 

 
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