Hello Year 7!
This week, we’re turning our attention to a poetic form that
Shakespeare helped to make famous: the sonnet.
In this part of the unit, you’ll be learning about how the
sonnet form works, reading examples by Shakespeare and other poets, and each
week you’ll try out some poetic lines of your own in a series of ‘Metrical
Challenges’. Hopefully, by the end of term, you’ll be ready to write a sonnet
of your own!
Here’s
your work for the week beginning June 8th:
2) Read William Wordsworth’s famous sonnet, ‘Composed Upon
Westminster Bridge’, and answer the questions that follow (click here if you are viewing on an Apple device and cannot see a full-screen or download button):
If you’d like more examples and more information about some
of these key terms, take a look here:
3) Metrical Challenge 1: Iambic Pentameter
Write at least five lines of iambic pentameter
of your own.
Have a look at the powerpoint below for help, advice and examples. When you’ve finished, send your best lines
(or all of them!) to Mr Muralee in an email. Make sure you put the name of your
English teacher in your email too. There will be merits for the best lines –
and maybe (with your permission) I’ll share some of them next week!
Good luck!
That’s it for this week. In the
next few weeks, we’ll gradually build up to writing a whole sonnet of your own.
Perhaps there will be prizes for the best ones and we’ll put them together in
an anthology.
Please get in touch if you need
any help.
THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
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