Lexi Burrows Staff Reporter English I classes are learning about Shakespeare for the next eight weeks. Students are learning old English and will be reading many plays written by Shakespeare. After learning about sonnets, students were assigned to write their own. A sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines using any number of formal rhyme schemes, and use ten syllables per line according to Dictionary.com. Writing a sonnet typically follows the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. For some students sonnets can be very difficult to write. Students from Mrs. Henry’s English I classes will be turning in their sonnets on Tuesday, leading them into reading Shakespeare's plays and acting them out in class. Reading Shakespeare’s writing can feel like one is reading a different language. Old English is a highly inflected language with a largely Germanic vocabulary, which is much different than the modern day English. “There will be many pieces of th...