Curated OER
Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 14 multiple choice questions based on various Shakespearean sonnets. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
Novelinks
The Winter’s Tale: Sonnet Strategy
Combine poetry and reading comprehension with an engaging writing assignment. Readers of The Winter's Tale craft a sonnet in the voice of one of the characters in Shakespeare's play.
Curated OER
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
In this poetry analysis worksheet, students respond to 21 short answer questions about Shakespeare's Sonnets 29, 116, and 130.
Curated OER
Spenser, Shakespeare, and the "Blazon": Lesson 4
Students discuss the meaning and tone of Shakespeare's Sonnet 130. In this sonnets lesson, students compare Spenser's sonnets to Shakespeare's. Students discuss specific words that add to the humor in Shakespeare's sonnet,...
Curated OER
Preparing for Poetry: A Reader's First Steps
Students complete poetry analysis using William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" as a part of a study of figurative language. In this Shakespearean language lesson, students define literal and figurative language and practice paraphrasing and...
Curated OER
Sonnet 130
Students identify and interpret the structural features of literature through the study, analysis and production of Poetry. Including the structural characteristics. Students write a sonnet including required elements, such as length,...
Curated OER
Preparing for Poetry: A Reader's First Steps
Learners examine denotation and connotation in language, and paraphrase a poem. They read and analyze a sonnet by iam Shakespeare, analyze the attitude and tone, paraphrase a poem, and create a thesis about a poem based on textual evidence.
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...
Eserver
E Server: Poetry Collection: Shakespeare: Sonnet 130
The text of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Shakespeare: Sonnets
This lesson focuses on Shakespeare's sonnets; it features three sonnets: Sonnet 29, 116, and 130 and provides links to a modern paraphrase/analysis of each. It also offers an audio of Alan Rickman reading Sonnet 130. Students are to...
Shakespeare Online
Shakespeare Online: Analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 130
This analysis begins with a paraphrase of the poem and a glossary of unfamiliar terms. There follows a brief, clear analysis of the poem which focuses on Shakespeare's twist on conventional sonnet imagery.
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PBS
Public Boradcasting Service: Shakespeare's Sonnets [Pdf]
A printable handout containing three of Shakespeare's most famous sonnets: Sonnet 18, Sonnet 29, and Sonnet 130.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Sounds of the Sonnet
"Sound Experiments" drive this lesson plan. Sonnet analysis is accompanied by readings based on specific emotions. At this website, there are several links full-text sonnets by such authors as Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Longfellow, and...