Renaissance

= The Renaissance = **__﻿First....The Stuff we're reading...__** The Sonnets! (Shakespeare's mainly...) MACBETH.... A lot of Poetry and... A Meditation (a thoughtful reflection on a topic or theme)
 * The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
 * The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh
 * To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick
 * To his Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
 * A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
 * Death be Not Proud by John Donne
 * Meditation 17 by John Donne

**__Second....Stuff you need to know.....__** Tone, Pastoral, Metaphysical Writing, Conceits, Carpe Diem, Poetry, Turn of the Sonnet, Quatrains, Sonnet Meter, Iambic Pentameter, Themes, Chiasmus, Antithesis, Monologue, Soliloquy, Humanism, Renaissance, Reformation,