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Worksheet
Curated OER

Poetry Search

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
For this Literature worksheet, students identify and locate vocabulary terms related to poetry. There are 27 words located in the word search.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sonnet Project

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders use the internet to examine how the Gutenberg press affected society as a whole. Using examples of illuminated type, they develop type in three different formats. They share their types with the class and answer...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sonnet 130

For Teachers 11th - 12th
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,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sonnets and Poetic Dialogue

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders read a piece of work by Shakespeare and then write a sonnet.
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Sounds of the Sonnet

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This resource presents a activity in which students learn to study the form, sounds, and meanings of sonnets (particularly those by Shakespeare) in an interesting and interactive way.
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Interactive
Tramline

A Virtual Field Trip: William Shakespeare

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Travel on a Virtual Field Trip to learn more about William Shakespeare. You will find many deep, and thorough websites.
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Primary
Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: Sonnets: Sonnet 29

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the text of Shakespeare's "Sonnet 29," a paraphrase of the poem, and an analysis of the poem.
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Primary
Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: Sonnets: Sonnet 116

For Students 9th - 10th
This article provides the text for Shakespeare's "Sonnet 116," a paraphrase of the poem, and an analysis of the poem.
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eBook
Luminarium

Luminarium: The Works of John Donne

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A clickable list to selected full-text works by John Donne, including songs, sonnets, elegies, epigrams, and satires.
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eBook
Other

Elementary Odes: Pablo Neruda

For Students 9th - 10th
Online text to nine of his odes. Links are provided at the top of the page for access to each ode.
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Website
Sonnet Central

Sonnet in England (1880) James A. Noble

For Students 9th - 10th
"The Sonnet in England (1880)" by James Ashcroft Noble discusses the history of the sonnet from Petrarch through modern day. Hypertexr links to examples and other resources.
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Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Renascence and Other Poems, by Edna St. Vincent Millay

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: The Oxford Book of English Verse: a.t. Quiller Couch

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Compilation of various English poems. The poems are classified chronologically, alphabetically (by author), by title, and by first lines.
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Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Sonnets by William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the full text of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare. They are presented in seven groups of 20 and one group of 14.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Sonnets

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Sir Philip Sidney: Sonnets

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Sir Philip Sidney, his techniques, and his sonnets. It features "Sonnet 39" from his sequence "Astrophil and Stella" and an accompanying worksheet and Sidney's biography.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Edmund Spenser: Sonnets

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Edmund Spenser and his sonnets. It features two of his sonnets: Sonnet 30 and Sonnet 75, known as the Fire and Ice poems and a worksheet for them. It also offers links to Spenser's biography, Amoretti and...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: English Renaissance: Shakespeare: Sonnets

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Themes: Love

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of resources for exploring how romantic love and lovers feature in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. It includes video clips, Shakespeare's sonnets, and teacher resources.
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Lesson Plan
TES Global

Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Sonnet 130 Year 7

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[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...
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Lesson Plan
British Library

British Library: Teaching Resources: Romeo and Juliet: Words, Poetry & Plagiarism

For Students 9th - 10th
In these activities, students will conduct a close linguistic exploration of the Romeo and Juliet text, which considers the central and deadly role that words play in the lovers' fate. They will also engage in broader tasks that...
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Sor Juana, La Poetisa: Los Sonetos

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan, students will consider Sor Juana, la poetisa: Los sonetos. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. In this lesson students will analyze two sonnets of Sor Juana Ines de la...
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan, students will consider Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. In this lesson students will analyze two of Sor Juana's sonnets: "A su retrato"...
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Website
Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: Analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 130

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.