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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Analyzing Poetry [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explains how to analyze a poem for its subject, narrator, tone, diction, and more. "Open" and "closed" poems are defined. Explanation are provided for "metrical feet" and "rhyme scheme" in poetry. William Shakespeare's "My...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Sonnet 18" by William Shakespeare, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...
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Website
Other

Open Source Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Access the complete works of William Shakespeare - all his plays, sonnets and other poetry - with a lot of interesting tools to aid in serious studies of the Bard's works. Each of the works is completely searchable. In addition, the site...
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Primary
Eserver

E Server: Poetry Collection: Shakespeare: Sonnets

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of Shakespeare's sonnets, numbers 1-154.
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Website
PBS

Pbs: In Search of Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource supports the series "In Search of Shakespeare." It contains information about all of Shakespeare's plays and links to the complete texts; brief biographies of many people associated with Shakespeare and his times; images of...
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Lesson Plan
TES Global

Tes: Aqa Lit: King Lear & Parent/child Poetry So W

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a comprehensive lesson for comparing parent/child relationships using poems by a variety of English Literary Heritage poets and Acts I-III of King Lear. It includes parent/child lessons and...
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Unit Plan
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language: Shakespeare

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with identifying figurative language techniques found in excerpts written by William Shakespeare. A worksheet is available to help reinforce the concept of figurative language...
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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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Website
Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A wealth of information and analysis of Shakespeare's plays, background, themes, and other topics of interest to those students of Shakespeare. The site also offers the complete texts of all of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, quotations...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: In Search of Shakespeare: Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Explore this comprehensive site featuring lesson plans about Shakespeare's plays and life in Elizabethan England.
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Other

Super Scholar: Shakespeare in Pop Culture

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This creative infographic from SuperScholar helps us understand how much William Shakespeare's plays and poetry have influenced both our language and our culture today.
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Website
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Shakespeare's Sonnets

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an overview of William Shakespeare's Sonnets and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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Activity
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Selected Shakespeare Poems

For Students 9th - 10th
Not only is Shakespeare famous for his plays, but for his sonnets and songs, as well. View his poems here, including "The Phoenix and the Turtle", "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day", and other sonnets.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Poems About Ages and Stages

For Teachers 9th - 10th
William Shakespeare's "The Seven Ages of Man" pointed out how life happens in stages. Modeling the Bard himself and Harry Chapin's "Cat's In The Cradle", which breaks a father-son relationship into four stages (verses), each student will...
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: 8th Grade Poetry Unit

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This thirty-three-part learning module provides a poetry unit designed for 8th graders. This blendspace provides videos, web resources, and reference sheets related to the study of eighth grade poetry content.
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Handout
New York University

Nyu: William Shakespeare Literature Annotations

For Students 9th - 10th
Helpful but concise literature annotations on some of Williams Shakespeare's (1564-1616 CE) works.
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eBook
University of Victoria (Canada)

Internet Shakespeare Editions: The Library

For Students 9th - 10th
Multiple text versions of all of Shakespeare's works, including Folio, Quarto, and/or modern versions of some (Click on "A full list of the plays and poems, in their various versions"). Part of a larger site about Shakespeare containing...
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Website
Absolute Shakespeare

Absolute Shakespeare: "Coriolanus"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The entire text of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" divided by acts and scenes with a summary introduction of the play. With links to other Shakespearean plays, sonnets, biographies, poems, and more.
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Website
Other

Middle school.net: Shakespeare Analysis & Slide Show

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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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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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Tales From Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare

For Students 2nd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Tales from Shakespeare in Verse: Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, a poem of Shakespeare's play "Taming of the Shrew."
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Tales From Shakespeare in Verse: The Tempest by Shakespeare

For Students 2nd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Tales from Shakespeare in Verse: The Tempest by William Shakespeare a poem of Shakespeare's play "The Tempest."
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: "Sonnet 73"

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A sonnet by William Shakespeare about love and the passage of time. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Sonnet 5

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that begins with "Sonnet 5" by William Shakespeare, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...