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 This recording details a lecture/discussion on four of Shakespeare's Sonnets.  For the first three - we look at the Sonnets on the projector (and the students on their handouts that I have given them).  The way I have set it up - we reveal one or two lines at a time so we can take it in small steps - and the poems  reveal themselves in a wonderful way.  The final sonnet is a personal take - based on my own experience reading the  poem at my wedding and what that poem means to me.

  This recording details a lecture/discussion on four of Shakespeare's Sonnets.  For the first three - we look at the Sonnets on the projector (and the students on their handouts that I have given them).  The way I have set it up - we reveal one or two lines at a time so we can take it in small steps - and the poems  reveal themselves in a wonderful way.  The final sonnet is a personal take - based on my own experience reading the  poem at my wedding and what that poem means to me.

Of all of my lecture/class discussions - this is one that I am particularly fond of.  We read discuss and talk about four of Shakespeare's Sonnets.  I uncover line by line and we try to determine what is happening in the text.  I end with the very personal story of the sonnet that I read at my wedding (116).

One of my favorite classes all year to teach.  This year I finally moved from the overhead to Power Point - so I was a little nervous.  We look at four Sonnets in depth - each based on a close textual ananlysis - uncovering one line at a time - and end with a very personal story about my own wedding and Sonnet 116.