posted on Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 8:43 AM
Week 8 .
Wednesday: On Wednesday, we learned about Imagery. This is the best lesson I ever had. It's very interesting! We learned 3 imagery that is related to Romeo and Juliet. The first imagery is . . . :
'Oh she doth the torches to burn bright'
Meaning: Torches are used to bring light to dark places. When Romeo says that Juliet 'teaches the torches to burn bright' , he is saying that she is brighter than any torch. Light is a symbol of beauty.
'It seems she hangs upon the cheek og night. Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear.'
Meaning: The literary device used here is personification. Night is imagined by Romeo to have a cheek. This means that night is given human characteristics.
Diamonds reflect light cast on them and they sparkle. Ethiopia is acountry in African. People in this country have dark skin. Objects that shine like diamonds in the night sky are the star and the moon.
'So show a snowy dove trooping amongst crows, as younder lady over her fellows shoe' .
Meaning: The literary device used here is metaphor, since Juliet is directly compared to a snowy dove, These birds are beautiful. The rest of the ladies in the Ball are compared to crow. This birds are ugly.
We took the while period to go through the worksheet called Literature: Imagery (Romeo&Juliet). That's all!
Friday: (Part 1)
What we did today is Sonnets. What are Sonnets? Sonnets are one of the poetic forms that can be found in lyric poetry from Europe. One of the best known sonnet writers is William Shakespeare, who wrote 154 of them (not including those that appear in his plays). A Shakespearean, or English, sonnet consists of 14 lines, each line containing ten syllables and written in iambic pentameter, in which a pattern of an unemphasized syllable followed by an emphasized syllable is repeated five times. The rhyme scheme in a Shakespearean sonnet is a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g; the last two lines are a rhyming couplet. We did only the first page of the worksheet. Here's the Sonnets that we did:
If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This is my holy shrine, the gentle sin is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this,
For saints have hands that pilgrim's hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmer's kiss
Have not saints lips, and holy palmer's too?
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do.
Then pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair
Saints do not move, through grant for prayer's sake.
Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.
We have homework for today. Our homework is to complete another page of the worksheet.
Friday: (Part 2)
For this lesson is kind of special becuase we had 2 lesson in one day. The other lesson is our make-up lesson. Our make-up lesson start at 2:30pm . For this lesson, we did not do much. We only proceed to the Movers and Shakers Gallery and need to complete the worksheet by the end of the lesson that is 3:15pm . After this lesson, I just learned that whatever we learn for literature is related to Singapore.
