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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 examine one type of lyric poem; the English Sonnet. By studying the form of sonnets, students can explain the English Sonnets more effectively in their future reading if them, and they ill also have the tools to compose a sonnet of their own. 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 investigate how sound influences meaning in poetry by listening to sonnets. They write an analysis after listening to and reading sonnets. 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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- 9th - 10th
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Students look at the works of Shakespeare to describe and explain relationships among some of the different texts. The writing of the learners has the intent of increasing comprehension, interpretation, and critical analysis skills. Full Review »
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- 11th - 12th
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Students discover and identify how William Shakespeare created complex systems within his sonnets using both words and the structure of the poem. The lesson uses target questions to induce class discussion. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the difference between Othello's jealousy and his passion. They create tableaux or living pictures to examine the difference between the two as presented in four of Shakespeare's sonnets. They discuss their findings in small groups. 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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