English
Reading and Viewing 2
LESSON
4
Poetry
Teacher Guide
Verse form
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make sense of this form of poetry.
Lesson Outcomes
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• discuss how verse and stanza form contribute to
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Curriculum Links
LO 2: Reading and Viewing
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rhythm and punctuation affect meaning
Lesson Notes
The history of the sonnet
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used the format to write poems to his beloved named
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be about: the speaker is going to count the ways
in which she loves her beloved.
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descriptions of her love such as the fact that she
loves him in almost unreachable proportions and
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ways of love. Here she says that she loves him as
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continue to love him even after death.
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grouped together by the rhyme scheme and the
punctuation.
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the course of the stanzas.
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