As a review of poetry and literary terms, this resource would be a great addition in a middle school classroom. There are questions involving sonnets, similies, haikus, and more. An instructor could use this resource as is, or add...

Expose your class to various poetic forms. Listed in and described in this slide show are: ballad, lyric poem, ode, dramatic monologue, sonnet, and villanelle. Some descriptions are more detailed than others. 

Are your middle schoolers writing a sonnet? Here's a learning exercise to help them craft their first sonnet! Make edits as you see necessary. 

Students analyze close readings of poems, looking up words in the dictionary, and discussing the major parts of dictionary definitions, including word origin and parts of speech. They examine sonnets, then compare/contrast their findings.

Students experience and enjoy the sounds of poetry. They erform sound experiments with sonnets and closely read and analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare. Students write an analysis of how sound affects meaning in a sonnet chosen from the...

Rather than a lesson, this resource is a list of poetic forms and young poets are encouraged to try their hand at composing poems of various types.

Students examine the inspiration for the John Mc Crae's poem, In Flanders Field. They study sonnets and the use of tetrameter before discussing is considered to be a sonnet although it does not follow the pattern. They discuss the...

Ninth graders explore poetic technique and figurative language in this ten lesson unit. Comparisons are made between a variety of forms of poetic expressions and the lives of several poets are studied.

Twelfth graders use the internet to examine how the Gutenberg press affected society as a whole. Using examples of illuminated type, they develop type in three different formats. They share their types with the class and answer...

Students identify and interpret the structural features of literature through the study, analysis and production of Poetry. Including the structural characteristics. Students write a sonnet including required elements, such as length,...

There are nineteen of John Donne's sonnets at this page. There is no commentary or other explanatory information.

What do you know about Shakespeare's tragedy "Romeo and Juliet?" Explore this informative resource filled with links to lesson plans and activities.

The text of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 69.

The text of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 72.

The text of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 74.

The text of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 80.

The text of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 64.

The text of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 68.

The text of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 71.

The text of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73.

The text of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 75.

The text of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 76.

The text of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 77.

The text of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 78.