September 10,2008

Aim: How can Shakespeare’s sonnet 116 relates to our personal lives?
Do Now: Write about a time when a best friend’s personal flaws got in the way of your friendship. Or, have you ever stopped seeing/loving someone (friend, girlfriend, boyfriend, family, etc.) because of a personal flaw?
One of my friend, she is an arrogant and self centered person. she cant stay committed in a relationship and doesn't care much about the people around her. She thinks that she is the queen of the world and they should obey her. I stopped hanging with her because she had a way of making people feel bad about them self and see them self in a negative way.

Procedures:
Teacher Read Aloud: Sonnet 116
Students will do the following

Write a brief paragraph on what you think is the meaning of the poem.
The meaning of this poem is that true love is real. It doesn't matter what you look like or how you behave. Love is love. It can stand up to any test and withstand storms. But sometimes when love is not love. Its not real and it cant stand up to anything.

Think about two questions that you would like to discuss about this poem and write it in your journal/notebook.

Now pass your journals around your table and have your peers answer the questions.

Cooperative Learning:
Thematic: What is the overall Theme of this sonnet? Cite supporting lines from the sonnet

Literary Analysis: Look carefully at lines 5-8 notice any metaphors?

Think About: What kind of person might the speaker be? The likely age of such a person. The experiences that such a person might have had.

Do you think the speaker’s concept of love is realistic? Why or Why not?

Connect: What is the ONE flaw that could turn you away from a person? What do you think you can do to overlook this flaw (if you are willing)?

Mechanics: Scan this sonnet -----/-----/ with stress and unstressed

Vocabulary:
Line 2-impediments: obstacles. The traditional marriage service reads in part, “If any of you know just cause or just impediment why these persons should not be joined together…”
Line 5- mark: seamark—a landmark that can be seen from the sea and used as a guide in navigation
Line 7- bark: sailing ship
Line 8- whose ….height be taken: a reference to the star, whose value is measureless even though its altitude is measured by navigation
Line 10- within…compass: within the range of his curving sickle (what’s a sickle?)
Line 12- bears it out: endures; doom: Doomsday; Judgment Day


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