Sept. 4-5

Aim: Who likes Shakespeare why or why not?

Procedure: Teacher will give students handout and read aloud Sonnet 18.

Do Now: Students will read along and annotate.
Answer the following questions on the handout.

Comprehension Check:
What is being described in the sonnet?
- There love will go on no matter how short it is.

Identify literary techniques or devices?
- Metaphor, First Person, Imagery

What is the rhyme scheme of the sonnet?
Indicate the rhyme scheme at the end of each line.
1. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? a
2. Thou art more lovely and more temperate: b
3. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, a
4. And summer's lease hath all too short a date: b
5. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, c
6. And often is his gold complexion dimmed, d
7. And every fair from fair sometime declines, c
8. By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed: d
9. But thy eternal summer shall not fade, e
10. Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, f
11. Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade, e
12. When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, f
13. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, g
14. So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. g

How many lines are in this sonnet?
- 14 lines

Critical thinking:
What is this sonnet about?
-The love will last
What is the theme of this sonnet?
-Love (eternal), How beauty last, and love is kindness.

Paraphrase the sonnet line by line as you would to a friend. You can paraphrase it using slangs, spanglish, abbreviated spellings etc.
1) Should I compare you to a summer's day
2) You're lovely and calm
3)Obstalces may put you down
4)There is not enough days
5)You're so beautiful
6)But sometimes you may lose value
7)Love may not last
8)Our course can't be determined
9)There love will not change
10)Not lose how pretty they are
11)Death is not a problem
12)After death we still be together
13)As long as man can breathe and see
14)As long as this love lives.

On Handout: Write your definition of a sonnet on your handout.
-A sonnet is a 14 lined poem that has several rhyme schemes.