Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Analyzing Poetry [Pdf]
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...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
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...
Other
Open Source Shakespeare
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...
Eserver
E Server: Poetry Collection: Shakespeare: Sonnets
This is a collection of Shakespeare's sonnets, numbers 1-154.
PBS
Pbs: In Search of Shakespeare
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...
TES Global
Tes: Aqa Lit: King Lear & Parent/child Poetry So W
[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...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language: Shakespeare
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...
Shakespeare Online
Shakespeare Online: Sonnets: Sonnet 29
This site provides the text of Shakespeare's "Sonnet 29," a paraphrase of the poem, and an analysis of the poem.
Shakespeare Online
Shakespeare Online
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...
PBS
Pbs: In Search of Shakespeare: Lesson Plans
Explore this comprehensive site featuring lesson plans about Shakespeare's plays and life in Elizabethan England.
Other
Super Scholar: Shakespeare in Pop Culture
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.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Shakespeare's Sonnets
Read an overview of William Shakespeare's Sonnets and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Selected Shakespeare Poems
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.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Poems About Ages and Stages
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...
TES Global
Blendspace: 8th Grade Poetry Unit
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.
New York University
Nyu: William Shakespeare Literature Annotations
Helpful but concise literature annotations on some of Williams Shakespeare's (1564-1616 CE) works.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Internet Shakespeare Editions: The Library
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...
Absolute Shakespeare
Absolute Shakespeare: "Coriolanus"
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.
Other
Middle school.net: Shakespeare Analysis & Slide Show
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.
Shakespeare Online
Shakespeare Online: Sonnets: Sonnet 116
This article provides the text for Shakespeare's "Sonnet 116," a paraphrase of the poem, and an analysis of the poem.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Tales From Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare
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."
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Tales From Shakespeare in Verse: The Tempest by Shakespeare
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."
Read Works
Read Works: "Sonnet 73"
[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.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Sonnet 5
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...