IGCSE English Literature teachers, here's a full 45-minute paper-based lesson that you can conduct in-class or assign as homework.
IGCSE English Literature students, here's a full 45-minute paper-based lesson that you can use on your own.
If, in your study of poetry so far in this course, you have studied poetic rhyme scheme and meter including iambic pentameter and you have also already read one or more narrative texts (novels, stories, plays) listed below, you are ready to go for this lesson!
Objective: To write a Shakespearean sonnet based on a narrative text.
Possible IGCSE narrative texts for this lesson:
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
My Mother Said I Never Should by Charlotte Keatley
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Richard III by William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Journey’s End by R.C. Sheriff
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
“Games at Twilight” by Anita Desai
When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Hullaballoo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
“The Signalman” by Charles Dickens
“The Yellow Wall Paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“How It Happened” by Arthur Conan Doyle
“There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury
“Meteor” by John Wyndham
“The Lemon Orchard” by Alex La Guma
“Secrets” by Bernard MacLaverty
“The Taste of Watermelon” by Bordon Deal
“The Third and Final Continent” by Jhumpa Lahiri
“On Her Knees” by Tim Winton
Any other IGCSE Literature class text!
Click here to download the the “Shakespearean Sonnet” lesson handout.
When you have finished with this lesson, please feel free to share your final sonnets the “comments” section!
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