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Sonnets, Shakespeare, and You:

How to rhyme your way into the hearts of another

Lesson Goals:Examine structure of a sonnet

Analyze texts

A specific type of poem Originated in Italy Shakespeare is famous for

writing them Wrote a series of 154 Sonnets They are named by the number;

no real title!

What is a Sonnet?

14 line poem 3 Quatrains (a four line stanza)

Each stanza rhymes every other line

ABAB 1 Couplet (two lines that rhyme)

• Rhyme Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

What makes up a Sonnet?

After Turkey Day, the garbage bags sat;My dog was tempted by the tasty sight.He tore them open, gorged big, and grew fat,But first he made a mess and caused some blight.

He ate some hot sauce and blueberry pies,Then laid around and moaned out loud in pain.I worried in my heart of his demise,And tried to scrub the purple carpet stain.

He slowly came around and waddled slow,His belly wide and nearly to the floor.So sad to see my hungry doggy growSo portly wide, he barely fit his door.

He survived, but still he is more than stout.I’ve learned. Next time I’ll take the garbage out!

EXAMPLES ARE THE GREATEST

Where are/is…Quatrains?Couplet?Rhyme Scheme?

Open books to page 225 in Springboard!

1) Listen to Sonnet 18 first; what do you notice?

2) What does the poem seem to be about?

Sonnet 18

In your books, and together, we are going to mark the elements of a sonnet for Sonnet 18

Draw boxes around the quatrains

Circle the couplet Write the corresponding

letters of the rhyme scheme at the end of the lines

Marking the Text

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all to short a dateSometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmer;And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed.But thy eternal summer shall not fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st’Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st,So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Sonnet 18

Break it down, stanza by stanza, and paraphrase

Paraphrase means put it in your own words, but keep it the same length

We’ll do stanza 1 together, but then you and your partner are on your own!

So what does this mean?

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all to short a date.

Change it up, modern style

What words do we for sure know?

Get out your dictionary apps too

If you text, you will end. Fortunato style.

Explain in at least three sentences what the “This” is that Shakespeare is referring to in line 14.

What impact does “this” have on the speaker’s maiden?

Discussion Question/Exit Ticket