For this assignment, you are going to choose a famous couple from the list below and write a humorous sonnet that one of these individuals would send to the other. You may write your sonnet with sincerity and affection, or, if you are feeling clever or cynical, you may write a parody. A parody uses the form of the original to poke fun. For this assignment, you will write your parody in sonnet form but employ techniques like hyperbole, understatement, or trony to mock the love poem genre, the idea of love in general, or some dynamic of your chosen couple's relationship. Look at another writer's Parody of Sonnet 18 to see if you would like to try it. The choice is yours! Refer to the assignment rubric to see how your assignment will be evaluated. Couples to consider: a Mickey and Minnie Mouse Superman and Lois Lane c. Bonnie and Clyde d Antony and Cleopatra Charlie Brown and Peppermint Patty Princess Jasmine and Aladdin Princess Peach and Mario (video game) h. Edward and Bella (Twilight series) Many Potter and Ginny Weasley (Harry Potter series) John Lennon and Yoko Ono * Brad Pin and Angelina Jolie Baronce and Jay-Z m Ben Afleck and Jennifer Garner Faith Hiland Tim McGraw Any other famous pais

In just over one hundred years, between 1701 and 1810, 252,500 enslaved africans were brought to barbados—an island that occupies only 166 square miles (making it, today, one of the smallest countries in the world). the english then set out to conquer more sugar islands, starting with jamaica, which they took from spain in 1655. in the same period that the 252,500 africans were brought to barbados, 662,400 africans were taken to jamaica. thus, sugar drove more than 900,000 people into slavery, across the atlantic, to barbados and jamaica—and these were just two of the sugar islands. the english were eagerly filling antigua, nevis, saint kitts, and montserrat with slaves and sugar mills. they took over much of dutch guiana for the same reason. seeing the fortunes being made in sugar, the french started their own scramble to turn the half of the island of hispaniola that they controlled (which is now haiti), as well as martinique, guadeloupe, and french guiana (along the south american coast near dutch guiana), into their own sugar colonies, which were filled with hundreds of thousands more african slaves. by 1753, british ships were taking average of 34,250 slaves from africa every year, and by 1768, that number had reached 53,100. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how do the authors use historical evidence to support their claim? x(a) they use secondary sources to show how french and english monarchs were indifferent to enslaved people. x(b)they use secondary sources to show that enslaved people often fought for their freedom after arriving in the caribbean. the answer is: (c)they use facts from primary sources to show how countries increased the number of enslaved people to produce more sugar. x(d)they use primary source interviews to show that countries could make more money in trading sugar without using enslaved people.

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