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Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet Lesson PlanListening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet Lesson Plan
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Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet

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Learners experience and enjoy the sounds of poetry. They erform sound experiments with sonnets and closely read and analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare. Students write an analysis of how sound affects meaning in a sonnet chosen from the sonnet bank.

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sonnets, types of poetry, william shakespeare

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shakespeare, sonnet, english language arts
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Grade
9th - 12th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Lesson Plans
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For Teacher Use
Duration
4 days
Instructional Strategy
Research

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