Celebrate Valentine's Day with this love sonnet poetry project!
This themed packet includes a fun and engaging poetry lesson spotlighting William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18.
What's Included:
- Poetry concepts, history and background information
- Detailed teacher notes
- Sonnet 18 original and modern lines
- Reading comprehension and analysis questions
- Write your own sonnet worksheet
Concepts Covered:
- Petrarchan Sonnet
- Spenserian sonnet
- Miltonic Sonnet
- Shakespearean sonnet
- Quatrains
- Couplet
- Rhyme Scheme
- Meter
- Iambic Pentameter
William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18:
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
