Listening to Your Sonnet with a Stethoscope: October 3, 2019

Focus: How can a poem's rhythm contribute to its meaning?

1. Warming up by listening to the heartbeats of three songs:

In each song, how does the rhythm reflect meaning?

Song #1: "Stressed Out" (twenty one pilots)
Song #2: "Critical Mistakes" (888)
Song #3: "Modern Man" (Arcade Fire)

2. Introducing you to scansion with Shel Silverstein and Robert Frost; examining scansion's larger purpose in Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" and "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun"

• What different types of poetic rhythm should we be listening for when there's no music?
• How does the rhythm in each poem reflect the poem's larger meaning?

3. Listening for the rhythm in your sonnets (small groups) and adding to your metacognitives

HW:
1.  For Friday, Oct 4: Read Chapters 16 through 19 and prepare your next Socratic ticket. Remember your oath: NO SPARKNOTES.

2. By Monday, Oct 14: Memorize your sonnet (stay tuned for tips on this).