1. Topic / Objective: Students will be able to identify timeless themes in Shakespeare’s work, and be able to discuss how Shakespeare treats his themes. Name: Class/ Period: Date: Essential Question: What is a sonnet? How do you identify a sonnet? What main theme runs throughout all of Shakespeare’s sonnets? Questions/CuesSonnets Created by Giacomo da Lentini Italian for “little song” There are two kinds English (Shakespearean) Sonnets Italian (Petrarchan) sonnets Those who wrote sonnets were called “Sonneteers” The most famous sonneteer was __________________ (he wrote 152 of them) Italian Sonneteers: Dante Alighieri Guido Cavalcanti English sonneteers: John Milton Thomas Gray William Wordsworth Elizabeth Barrett Browning

2. Questions/CuesItalian Sonnets: Include two parts: the problem and the resolution First octave (__ lines) are the problem, the last octave is the resolution Rhyme scheme: a-b-b-a, a-b-b-a, c-d-e-c-d-e English Sonnets: Consist of fourteen lines Written in iambic pentameter Pattern in which an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable is repeated five times Rhyme scheme: Made up of three quatrains (__ lines) and one couplet (__lines) a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d. e-f-e-f, g-g Main theme in sonnets: Love Summary:

3. Questions/Cues“On His Blindness” by John Milton When I consider how my light is spent ( ) Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, ( ) And that one talent which is death to hide, ( ) Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent ( ) To serve therewith my Maker, and present ( ) My true account, lest he returning chide; ( ) "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" ( ) I fondly ask; but Patience to prevent ( ) That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need ( ) Either man's work or his own gifts; who best ( ) Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state ( ) Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed ( ) And post o'er land and ocean without rest; ( ) They also serve who only stand and wait." ( ) Italian or English? Summary:

4. Questions/CuesSonnet CXXX by William Shakespeare My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; ( ) Coral is far more red, than her lips red: ( ) If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; ( ) If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. ( ) I have seen roses damasked, red and white, ( ) But no such roses see I in her cheeks; ( ) And in some perfumes is there more delight ( ) Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. ( ) I love to hear her speak, yet well I know ( ) That music hath a far more pleasing sound: ( ) I grant I never saw a goddess go, ( ) My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: ( ) And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare, ( ) As any she belied with false compare. ( ) Italian or English? Summary: