4a. Study Questions

To study poetry, you need to experience it: either the writing or the reciting of it. Therefore, you can choose between these two assignments below.

➜ Do one of the assignments below.

 

Assignment A: WRITE the poetry
➜ This assignment is easily explained: write your own sonnet.
➜ Make sure you follow the rules of a sonnet. You are free to choose between a Petrarchan sonnet or a Shakespearean sonnet.
➜ Upload your sonnet to Seesaw and copy the link to your Literary History File in Egodact.

 

Assignment B: RECITE the poetry
Choose one of the three sonnets we studied in this quest.
➜ Go to YouTube and look for three readings of one of these sonnets. Below you will find a few of Mrs W's favourites...
➜ Take notes on the readings you found ➜ Make a video or audio recording of yourself reciting the sonnet you chose.
➜ Upload your recording to Seesaw and copy the link to your Literary History File in Egodact.

 

Sonnet 18

Harriet Walters

Patrick Stewart

Sonnet 116

Juliet Stevenson

Laura Rollins

Sonnet 130

Alan Rickman

The Falconer (NY style)