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 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.

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.

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,...

This is an 8-page PDF article on "How to Write a Sonnet" by Peter Sadlon. It provides background information about sonnets, discusses the two main kinds of sonnet Italian or Petrarchan form and English or Shakespearean form. It explains...

This is a discription and literary analysis of Edmund Spenser's Amoretti, a love poem composed of 89 sonnets, and "Epithalamion," a wedding song composed of 24 complex 18-line stanzas.

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

[Free Registration/Login Required] A sonnet by William Shakespeare about love and the passage of time. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

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.

The text of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 79.