Do Now Sept.10

Aim: How can Shakespeare’s sonnet 116 relates to our personal lives?

Do Now: Write about a time when a best friend’s personal flaws got in the way of your friendship. Or, have you ever stopped seeing/loving someone (friend, girlfriend, boyfriend, family, etc.) because of a personal flaw?

One flaw that got in the way of me and my friend is when one of my friends kept talking about herself and keep saying that she's the best at everything. She got on my nerve's and that caused a flaw between us two.

Teacher Read Aloud: Sonnet 116

Write a brief paragraph on what you think is the meaning of the poem.
I think that this poem is about how true love is love that never for any cause breaks or else its no longer a true love.

Think about two questions that you would like to discuss about this poem and write it in your journal/notebook.

Question:
1- Why does the author mention in line 2 that "love is not love."?
2- What does line 13 imply about love?

Cooperative Learning:
Thematic: What is the overall Theme of this sonnet? Cite supporting lines from the sonnet
(There is no true love form line 2), (Admit impediments. Love is not love.)

Literary Analysis: Look carefully at lines 5-8 notice any metaphors?
(It is the star to every wand'ring bark,) line 7

Think About: What kind of person might the speaker be? The likely age of such a person. The experiences that such a person might have had.
He probably has experienced love in his life. Basically he is an experienced person for the fact that he knows so much about true love.

Do you think the speaker’s concept of love is realistic? Why or Why not?
Yes because it goes on in the society all around us or may be is is also experienced about true love.

Connect: What is the ONE flaw that could turn you away from a person? What do you think you can do to overlook this flaw (if you are willing)?
one flaw is when people don't know how to give and take space for themselves. One way to cure this flaw is of course to give and ask for space and live happily ever after.