Lesson Plan

Preparing for Poetry: A Reader's First Steps

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Students complete poetry analysis using William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" as a part of a study of figurative language. In this Shakespearean language lesson, students define literal and figurative language and practice paraphrasing and annotating poems. Students analyze the poem's speaker, its poetic structure, and poem's content. Students analyze the theme of the sonnet and create a thesis about a the poem based on evidence.

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10th - Higher Ed
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English Language Arts
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