First up, we continued with our Unit 5 vocabulary and a review of the poetic meters, line, stanzas, and types. Next up, the three main sonnet structures of Petrarch, Shakespeare, and Spenser. Of course, Petrarch tends to follow the abba abba cde cde (with some variance), Shakespeare prefers the abab cdcd efef gg, and Spenser likes to shake it up with abab bcbc cdcd ee.
With the end of poetry terminology and examples, we moved forward into everyone's favorite AP activity: multiple choice passages. Looking at two samples, we identified types of stems and practiced close reading skills to better answer the questions. Whiles these two passages were for practice, we will soon move into score grades.
And in the last moments, we began to read Shakespeare with "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day," which was generously read to us by Thomas Hiddleston. For tomorrow's class, we will break down the iambic pentameter of the poem and gallop our way into understanding meter.
Congratulations to Justin for his Mr. FZN crown!
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