Thursday, March 4, 2010 5:59 AM

Term 1 Week 7 (Fri)

♥Today theres is gonna be two part of literature lesson . One is in the morning and one is in the afternoon .

Part 1 :

We learnt about sonnets . The sonnet is one of the poetic forms that can be found in lyric poetry from Europe. The term "sonnet" derives from the Occitan word sonet and the Italian word sonetto, both meaning "little song" or "little sound". By the thirteenth century, it had come to signify a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure. The conventions associated with the sonnet have evolved over its history. The writers of sonnets are sometimes referred to as "sonneteers," although the term can be used derisively. 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. This is an example of sonnets :

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.

After doing some question on the worksheet . Mr Chua explained the question that we don't understand . But then sadly , the bell rang . But luckily Mr Chua have explained one part of the worksheet . He told us to do the other part at home as homework .

Part 2:

Today there was make-up lesson for literature . We didnt do much on literature . Mr Chua brought us to the Movers and Shakers Gallery to do a worksheet about our fore fathers . We were told to walk around the Movers and Shakers Gallery to look for answer . Then Mr Chua told us that if we have finish the worksheet , we will hand it up th Mr Chua and sit down quitely while waiting for the rest to finish their worksheet . Then when everyone have finish , the bell rang . Mr Chua told us to went back up to class for our next make-up lesson .