CHALLENGE+2

Congratulations on beginning your interactive timelines! = = Today we are going to look at the form of Sonnets. We are going to conduct internet research to consider Sonnet structure and meaning. Please create a word document to make notes on structure and meaning. Go online and collect information on: rhyme scheme; rhyming couplets; form; octet; sextet; metaphor; metre; iambic pentameter. Outline these terms of Sonnet form on your word document.

Please utlise academic/scholarly sites **(no wikipedia).** To begin with, you could try __@http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/home.html__
 Find and watch Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" on youtube: @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZY8coaWMg.

Click on //William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18// on this wiki site, and see what structural features you find in reading it. Consider what meaning the Sonnet may have in written and spoken form. Are there any differences?

 Identify and examine the elements of Sonnet form in Shakespeare's Sonnet 18.

 You may wish to go to www.wordle.netto reflect upon the key words, themes and phrases of the sonnet and their meaning.  Add to your word document some key words, themes or phrases that you have found in Sonnet 18. Please upload your Word document to the interactive project.

 EXTENSION: Find other examples of Shakespearean Sonnets on the web, and identify these key structural features and consider meaning. PLEASE GO TO CHALLENGE 2 REVIEW