Performing Sonnets

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Students use Shakespearean sonnets as part of a poetry analysis instructional activity. In this sonnet instructional activity, students perform a sonnet by Shakespeare but treat it as a script to be acted out. Students work in pairs to create motions for two lines from the poem and teach them to the entire class. Students discuss and write how they motions help them understand the poem.

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