A few quick notes about Friday's sonnet activity

1. I was quite impressed with the analytical depth of your readings of the sonnets, especially considering that you had less than half an hour to get to that depth. If you would like to retrieve your group's notes about your chosen sonnet I will have them with me during my extended office hours this week and, of course, before and after lecture. (I will make photocopies so that each group member can have the whole group's notes.)
• Everybody received 1 point toward participation credit from their small group work. Members of groups that appeared to have been especially productive or insightful received 2 points. Participation during whole-group discussion at the beginning of class was scored as usual. The maximum number of points that could be earned in this lesson was raised to 3 -- it's usually 2.
  
2. Note that the love object for sonnets 1-127 is male -- this is the fair youth that Kim and Heather talked about for the last three lectures. Although any individual sonnet, when taken out of its context, might apply equally successfully to a male or female love object, for the sake of narrative consistency and to demonstrate your mastery of the larger arc of these sonnets your pronouns should refer to a male beloved if you are writing on, say, sonnet #18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?").
3. If you would like to download the sonnets we worked with on Friday, click here. If you would like to download the sonnet worksheet we used, click here.