Thursday 6 October Hamlet film and sonnet assignment

Hamlet essay is due tomorrow at the beginning of class. This is the last grade of the marking period.

Assigned sonnets for students absent today:
Elijah- Rupert Brooks The Soldier
Hannah - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet VIX- If though must love me, let it nought
Dorothy-Edna St. Vincent Millay- I know I am but a summer to your heart
FOR TUESDAY 11 October- sonnet presentation. No writing. You will demonstrate your understanding of an assigned sonnet orally. Everyone has a different sonnet. This is so you gain a feel for how the sonnet has evolved through the centuries, what topics have been embraced within this form and the people who have chosen to communicate their sentiments through this poetic format. Below is a copy of the class handout. YOU WILL NEED YOUR THUMB DRIVE FOR THIS!(this was listed on the class criteria sheet)
Sonnet Presentations…beginning Tuesday 11 October
1. Type up your sonnet, double spaced, size 18 font. Put it on your thumb drive.
2. Practice reading it aloud, so that it flows trippingly on the tongue. Note the punctuation. If there is no comma or period at the end of the line, don’t stop. Pace yourself well. Think of Shakespeare’s advice to actors in Hamlet.
3. Know the meaning of every word…and how to pronounce them. Remember to stress a syllable, if there is a stress mark.
4. When you present: simply put in the jump drive and open the document on the smart board, so that everyone can see it clearly.
5. Now read it…beautifully.
6. Now explain it to the class: a. Who is the author and when did he / she live?
b. Who is the speaker? And how have you come to that conclusion? (text clues?)
c. Point out any difficult words to the class. Use the marker and underline.
d. Now read the poem a second time (yup)
e. Now give a summary of the poem. What message is the speaker conveying?

1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning- VI. "Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand..."
2. Elizabeth Barrett Browning- XIV. "If thou must love me, let it be for nought..."
3. Elizabeth Barrett Browning –XLIII. “ How do I love thee”
4. Edmund Spenser-Sonnet 79-“ Men call you fair, and you do credit it,”
5. William Shakespeare- "Not marble nor the gilded monuments"
6. William Shakespeare- "When I do count the clock that tells the time"
7. Percy Shelley –“Bright Star”
8. Samuel Taylor Coleridge –“Work without Hope”
9. Percy Shelley- “Ozymandias”
10. Matthew Arnold- “West London”
11. George Meredith- “Lucifer in Starlight”
12. Christina Rossetti- “Remember”
13. Thomas Hardy- “In the Cemetery”
14. Rupert Brooks- III “The Dead”
15. Rupert Brooks- “The Soldier”
16. Wilfred Own- “Glory of Women”
17. Charles Sorley- “When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead”
18. Robert Bridges- “In Autumn Moonlight, when the white air wan”
19. Claude Mckay “If We Must Die”
20. Claude McKay- “The Lynching”
21. James Baldwin- “The Magpie”
22. Countee Cullen- “Yet Do I Marvel”
23. Wanda Coleman-“I am seized with a desire to end”
24. Lucille Clifton- “Won’t you celebrate with me?”
25. Jericho Brown- “Lion”
26. Rita Dove-“ Sonnet in Primary Colors”
27. Edna St. Vincent Millay. “Only Until the Cigarette is Ended”
28. Edna St. Vincent Millay-“I Know I am But a Summer to Your Heart”
29. Sherman Alexie- “Farm Town Virgins”
30. Eleanor Alexander “Now”
31. Amy Lowell “To A Friend”
32. Paul Lawrence Dunbar-“Slow through the Dark”