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- 9th - 12th
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Students appreciate Shakespeare's genius as they struggle to compose six lines in iambic pentameter, knowing that he wrote tens of thousands in his plays. Full Review »
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This lesson can be easily tailored to a teacher's specific students. It's also easy to see, then, that the activities can be extended into a piece of literary analysis, or even the writing of a sonnet, that can be taken from outlines to first draft throug Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explore Shakespeare's use of poetic conventions, examine the first meeting between Romeo and Juliet and gain experience in close readng and the interpretation of verse structure and imagery. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students appreciate Shakespeare's art as well as reinforce literary terms and concepts. They begin to appreciate Shakespeare's genius as they struggle to compose six lines in iambic pentameter, knowing that he wrote tens of thousands in his plays. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students examine the works of iam Shakespeare. They translate poetry and relate the poetry to their own lives. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine Shakespeare's use of poetic conventions as principle of dramatic structure in Romeo and Juliet, identify use of figurative language, and poetic forms to impart perspective in play, and examine other Shakespearean plays. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students study the work of William Shakespeare. They survey the elements of comedy and tragedy and read plays and poems. They discuss the texts they read and recite poetry. They dramatize poems with movement and sounds and write poetry in verse forms. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students experience and enjoy the sounds of poetry. They perform "sound experiments" with sonnets. Also, they closely read and analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare. Write a brief analysis of how sound affects meaning in a sonnet chosen from the Sonnet Bank. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students review ideas from the era of Shakespeare such as magic and witchcraft, and review comedies, histories, and witchcraft as an introduction to a week long study of poetry. They read poetry while studying the unfamiliar vocabulary before writing original poetry which they will edit during the next week. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students are given information about two popular sonnet forms-English and Italian. They are given the rules for writing a sonnet. Students are asked what type of sonnet they would use. They are each given a sheet of paper and asked to write a sonnet. Students write the sonnnet together. They are explained the rhyme schemes and how the sounds of words are symbolically tracked with the letters of the alphabet. Full Review »
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