1. William Shakespeare Centers

2. 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 dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

3. Sonnet 130: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breast are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask’d, 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 walk, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she bellied with false compare.

4. Center 1: Evaluate the writings of Shakespeare by answering the attached questions:
What is your opinion of Shakespeare’s motives for writing the poem?
Give the rhythmic pattern, rhyme scheme, and stanza type for the sonnet.
Shakespeare’s sonnets often require the reader to question traditional themes such as love, family, peace, friendship, etc. What theme does Shakespeare call into question? Justify your choice by giving explicit interpretations from the poem that illustrate Shakespeare perspective.
See the literary terms chart and identify devices Shakespeare utilizes in this sonnet. How does it effect this piece of writing?
Sketch an imagine to symbolize this sonnet.
Develop questions or wondering you have from reading this sonnet.
Choose the best format for you to complete this activity some suggestions are a layered book, flip booklet, desktop project.

5. Center 2: Construct your Macbeth study guide.
Construct your Macbeth study guide complete with the following sections:
Characterization
Plot Development
Vocabulary
Comprehension

6. Section details
Characterization: Image/ description/ Importance to the story
Plot development: Options: Act comic strip, plot curve, chapter summary, plot conflict analysis, story web

7. Center 3: Life and Times of William Shakespeare Matchbook Activity
Create a nonfiction matchbook page with biographical facts about Shakespeare.

8. Center 4: Trip Back in Time
Think of what life would be like if you were to live during the Elizabethan era (1500’s – 1600’s). Construct a pyramid to display yourself in three-dimensional scenes that display life alterations for school, home, play, interest.