Sonnet Homework

Due 8:30AM Mon, Oct 8

Please write a sonnet. Traditionally, sonnets are love poems, but feel free to make your sonnet about kind of love (for a romantic partner, family member, friend, pet, god, etc.). You can choose a completely different subject.

Don't worry about making your poem "good" - that is the job of your genius.  Your job is to fulfill the requirements, which are as follows:
1. correct use of iambic pentameter
2. correct use of rhyming
3. use of a poetic structure - beginning, middle, end and volta
4. explanation

Each criteria is worth 2 points (2=mostly correct; 1=partially correct; 0=missing or completely incorrect)
total assignment = 8 points.

After you finish add an explanation of  your 3-part structure, rhyming, and "Volta" that you employed.

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February Blog Instructions

Use your warmup exercise as pre-writing for an original, expressive piece titled February. Your finished product can be any form: short story, nonfiction, poem, song lyric, poster, graphic story (comic). Due at midnight tonight, worth 5 points.