Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Academic Vocabulary Shakespearean Sonnet/English Sonnet: A fourteen line poem broken up into three quatrains and one couplet. The three quatrains set up a question or idea and the couplet answers that question or idea. Quatrain: Four lines of poetry that encapsulates one idea. Couplet: Two lines of poetry that encapsulates one idea and rhymes. Iambic Pentameter: Each line contains 10 syllables

Sonnet 18 Shift: Mark the quatrains, couplet, and rhyme scheme Title: Ignore Paraphrase If I compare you to a summers day, I would say that you are more beautiful and lovely than it. Sometimes the sun is not as bright as it always is and sometimes beautiful things are not always beautiful Death will never kill you and you will never become ugly Because as long as people read this they will know how beautiful you are Connotation: Buds of May – Delicate flower – Subject Untrimm’d – Things are allowed to go wild and get ugly (like a hedge) Attitude: Subject = Woman + She is beautiful = We think she is beautiful Theme Through Shakespeare’s 18th Sonnet, readers learn how a woman’s beauty can last forever if it is captured in words.

Sonnet 29 As a team do a STPCATT

Sonnet 33 Write a commanding paragraph on the sonnet’s tone.

Sonnet 73 Individually create a thesis you could write to on this poem. When everyone is done, compare your thesis against your team members.

Sonnet 116 Identify the purpose of the poem Identify the words that lead you to that purpose Set up an L1-L3 Chart that allows you to check to see if you are correct

Sonnet 129 Create a body paragraph while at the same time using the academic vocabulary of this style of writing.