Minutessss for JANUARY 2ND!

I don't really think I'm the right person for this but whatever so many people were absent so I guess it can't hurt. (And I don't think anyone else is planning to do the minutes?? sooo here they are)
We started off class with a reminder that our Canterbury Test is coming up.....next wednesday and that we probably should study.
The first part of the test is on historical background (what he lectured in class) and the second part is on the general prologue. He said he's going to pick lines out of the prologue and we are going to have to tell which character those lines refer to. Another part of the test is the one line about each character's tale. Mr. Lazarow said it doesn't have to be a smooth sentence. Then we also have to write the first 18 lines of the general prologue again.
After that we reviewed and we should know some of the following
1. relationships between characters (ex: summoner and friar, miller and reeve, shipmen and merchant, and manciple and man of law.)
2. all the humors and how they relate to the particular characters (blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm)
When we review more in class on monday and tuesday Mr. Lazarow said NOT to ask questions directly from the review sheets because those questions will not help us. (we can answer them on our own.)
So we couldn't really spend all the time in class thinking of questions so Mr. Lazarow started teaching about sonnets and here are those notes
sorry that they are a bit weird (they made sense when I wrote them down, i'll try to explain as much as I can)

Sonnets- two compoents; content and form(or structure)
the characteristics of a sonnet
it Rhymes and has 14 lines
two types of sonnets we will be focusing on: English and Italian
English sonnets:
a
b
a
b
c
d
c
d
e
f
e
f
g
g
each 4 lines (a,b,a,b) is a quatrain except for the last two lines which are a couplet. the quatrains have a purpose like paragraphs in an essay, while the couplet is kind of like the conclusion.
Italian sonnets are similar but have a different sequence
a
b
b
a
a
b
b
a
(variable)
c
d
e
c
d
e
OR
c
c
d
d
e
e
OR
c
d
c
d
e
e
Variable meaning the ending six lines could have one of those three different sequences.

And that was allllll! Have questions ready for review!!!
-Emily Wallace