We had a lot to cover last week. From the end of Dickens to the beginning of poetry and iambic pentameter, class has shifted into AP high gear. In order to "remix" this curriculum, I've put together a few resources in order to briefly summarize what we've really been up to.
To rewind back to the beginning of our Dickens unit, this video is a cute little biography about the famous author, cartoons and all.
The other half of the week we focused on the structure of a sonnet and its specific qualities including iambic pentameter. The idea of iambic pentameter doesn't sound too easy but when broken down, it's all about the rhythm and the beat, for the most part. This video teaches the basics to those who don't understand it altogether:
We lastly discussed the difficulty of writing a sonnet. Some people are creative writers; therefore, sonnets come easily to them. For others, you have to think of it like a song and give it a melody or flow to follow. This video is a Shakespeare sonnet in song form, making it easier to understand the tone and flow of the poem:
That's all for "Mixin' It Up"!
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