Do students understand that sonnets are not just a form but a way of thinking?.Have students identify the continuing influence of Shakespeare today.(See our modules on Petrarch and Petrarchan conventions.) Ask students to comment on how women change Petrarchan conventions.Ask students to identify these poems as Shakespearean or Petrarchan in form?.
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Ask students to talk about why these poets might have chosen to write a sonnet and not write in free verse?.Ask them to note how diction and concerns change over the centuries. Ask students to discuss how these poems are different from those written by Shakespearean and Renaissance writers.
Have the class read each poem aloud, with one student reading the octave and the other the sestet, or, depending on the poem, three students each reading a quatrain and a fourth reading the concluding couplet. Hand out copies of the poems you have selected. Marilyn Nelson, “ How I discovered Poetry” - extremely powerful description of racial consciousness and poetry. Maxine Kumin, “ Purgatory” - how would Juliet feel about Romeo if she hadn't died and instead was stuck as home changing diapers?. Carol Ann Duffy, “ Anne Hathaway”- a funny take on what it's like to be Shakespeare's wife. Rita Dove, " Hades’ Pitch" - Persephone considers dating Hades. Billy Collins, “ Sonnet” - writing a poem about writing a sonnet - amusing. Materials: Copies of as many of these suggested modern sonnets as you would like to make available to the class: This ten-week course introduces Petrarchan conventions, Shakespearean, Elizabethan and Renaissance sonnets, and the evolving language and topics of women writers from Shakespeare's time to present. Examples provided here consist of contemporary poems included in the "Shakespeare's Sisters" seminar for high school students taught at the Folger. This lesson draws on several modern sonnets of your choosing. Students will understand that many different kinds of sonnets are being written today and will read sonnets addressing familiar themes in contemporary language. Over five centuries, women writers and men writing about women have extended and transformed the sonnet to allow their voices to be heard. 
The Shakespearean sonnet continues to influence writers today. Gigi Bradford, former director of the NEA Literature Program and Folger Poetry Series, also taught the Folger's "Shakespeare's Sisters" seminar.Ĭommon Core Anchor Standards: R.1, R.2, R.5, R.6, R.9, R.10, SL.1 Lesson Overview She leads workshops on sonnets for teachers. She wrote "Nice Guys Finish Dead: Teaching Henry IV, Part I in High School" for the Shakespeare Set Free series. Authors: Louisa Newlin taught high school English for more than 40 years.
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