GROUP 3: SHAKESPERIAN SONNET

Presentation of Winter Term Group Work

WHAT AND HOW?

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Task: to transcode a scene of a play, respecting sound, syntactic and rhetorical operations of writing a poem.

Objective: to write a Shakespearian sonnet.

Materials: Material from the textbook. Material provided by the teacher on the website. W. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Text types analyzed: play, sonnet.

Methodology: Individual and group work.

STEP 1: Individual work

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1. Reading and study of pages from the textbook suggested by the teacher;

2. Reading of Romeo and Juliet;

3. Study of the English sonnet (Shakespearian model) and its rules using:

Textbook (page 69); Material provided by the teacher.

STEP 2: Group work

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1. Discussion: choice of the scene Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene II, lines 62 – 115.

2. Organization: Themes; Rethorical figures; Language (Old English);

3. Writing: Provisional draft; Additional notes and ideas.

STEP 2: Group work

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1. Writing: First version of the sonnet; Revision: lexis, punctuation, sounds and syntax; Final version of the sonnet;

2. Additional material (writing step): Monolingual dictionary; Bilingual dictionary.

SKILLS Language:

Reading; Writing; Discussing;

Study and Knowledge: English and Shakespearian

sonnet; Use of literary code (plays

and poetry);

Learning: Gathering of ideas; Selection; Planning; Drafting.

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GROUP 3

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CECCHETTO Giacomo

INDRI Patrick

SANTINI Leonardo

SIMIONATO Eleonora

VITALE Elisa