Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Sonnets
This lesson focuses on the sonnet including the definition, the history, the types of, and meters. It features the three types of sonnets: Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet, English/Shakespearean Sonnet, and Spenserian Sonnet. It describes the...
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Petrarch and Laura: Peter Sadlon: How to Write a Sonnet [Pdf]
This is an 8-page PDF article on "How to Write a Sonnet" by Peter Sadlon. It provides background information about sonnets, discusses the two main kinds of sonnet Italian or Petrarchan form and English or Shakespearean form. It explains...
TES Global
Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Sonnet 130 Year 7
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan for Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" asks students to mark the rhyme scheme and highlight similes and metaphors, to respond to a modern letter with a message similar to the sonnet, and to...
TES Global
Blendspace: Writing a Sonnet
A learning module that includes seven links to information, activities, and videos on how to write a sonnet.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Hate to Love Sonnets
In this lesson plan students will learn the meter and form of a sonnet and write one of their own regarding something they either love or hate.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: How Do I Love Sonnets
In this lesson students will learn the meter and rhyme of a sonnet and they will write one of their own using specific word choice.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Discovering Traditional Sonnet Forms
This lesson allows students read various sonnets and chart the basic characteristics of the poem, using their observations about traditional sonnet forms. After, students write original sonnets, using one of the poems they have analyzed...
Sonnet Central
Sonnet Central
A comprehensive site dedicated to the English sonnet. Site includes numerous pages grouped by country of origin and historic period. Also included is literary criticism of various sonnets and advice on how to write a sonnet. Click on the...
TES Global
Tes: Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet / Analytical Writing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a four-week lesson with plans, activities, writing assignments, and other assessments for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It includes themes, language, writing about literature, soliquays,...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Writing, Reading, and Understanding Poetry
This tutorial focuses on different aspects of poetry: definitions, types of poetry with examples, and how to read, write, and analyze poetry. It includes three videos: a YouTube video of "El Guante" performing a free verse poem, a...
Eserver
E Server: Poetry Collection: Shakespeare: Sonnet 80
The text of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 80.
Sonnet Central
Sonnets of Sir Philip Sidney
Full text of sonnets by Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), the Elizabethan poet.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Craft of Poetry: Structure of the Sonnet
Using a sonnnet grid, students write original Shakespearean sonnets and present them in digital slideshow format.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: English Pertrarchan Sonnets
This lesson focuses on English Pertrarchan sonnets which were translated into English by Sir Thomas Wyatt who then created his own poetry in the Pertrarchan form. It features Wyatt's poems "They Flee from Me" (in text and audio) and...
Sonnet Central
Sonnet Central: The Victorian Sonnet
The Victorian sonnet is discussed and links are provided to full-text examples of sonnets by exemplary 19th century poets.
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Golden Age Spanish Sonnets: Lope De Vega "A La Noche"
A sonnet that portrays the sweetness of the dream and the delight taken in the deception and lies within the dream. A wonderfully composed sonnet. Text is available in English and Spanish.
Sonnet Central
General Survey of the American Sonnet
This site is from The Sonnet in American Literature (1930). It includes links to the sonnets of E. A. Robinson as well as to many other poets and their works.
Sonnet Central
Sonnets: William Cullen Bryant (1794 1878)
Six sonnets by the American Romantic era poet, including "Midsummer," "October," "November," "To an American Painter Departing for Europe," "Mutation," and "William Tell."
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Middle school.net: Shakespeare Analysis & Slide Show
Check out this informative site featuring an analysis of Shakespeare. The objective of this activity is for students to analyze a sonnet and present their findings via slide show. This lesson integrates technology into the curriculum.
Sonnet Central
Sonnet Central: James Russell Lowell
This Sonnet Central site provides the texts to six of James Russell Lowell's sonnets: "Love", "Love and Sorrow", "The Street", "Jeffries Wyman", "To a Friend", and "To Miss D.T.".
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: 10th Lit/comp
Contains learning modules on the following topics: Research and MLA Foundations, Novels and Short Stories, Poetry: the Sonnet, Shakespearean Drama, Informative and Argumentative Essays,Research and MLA Review, Narrative Nonfiction,...
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Bartleby.com: Renascence and Other Poems, by Edna St. Vincent Millay
This site offers biographical information on Edna St. Vincent Millay, as well as the complete text of seventeen of her poems and Sonnets I-VI.
Sonnet Central
Sonnet Central: John Keats (1795 1821)
A collection of sonnets written by John Keats: "On the Sonnet," "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "On the Grasshopper and Cricket," "On Sitting down to Read King Lear Once Again," and others.
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Golden Age Spanish Sonnets: Juan Boscan
This sonnet expresses the power of love and the dangers of untamed love. The text is provided in both Spanish and English.