Donow: Sept. 4-5 2008

Donow: Sept. 4-5 2008

Aim: Who likes Shakespeare why or why not?
Procedure: Teacher will give students handout and read aloud Sonnet 18.

Do Now: Students will read along and annotate.
Answer the following questions on the handout.

Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 Student’s Paraphrase


1. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (A)
2. Thou art more lovely and more temperate: (B)
3. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, (A)
4. And summer's lease hath all too short a date: (B)
5. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, (C)
6. And often is his gold complexion dimmed, (D)
7. And every fair from fair sometime declines, (C)
8. By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:(D)
9. But thy eternal summer shall not fade, (E)
10. Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, (F)
11. Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade, (E)
12. When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, (F)
13. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, (G)
14. So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. (G)



Comprehension Check:
What is being described in the sonnet?
I think that the author is trying to compare a summers day to the beauty of some individual.

Identify any literary techniques or devices?
Rhyming, Repetition , alliteration, setting , personification, Rhetorical question, Theme, Apostrophe, Theme.

Indicate the rhyme scheme at the end of each line.(hint line 1&2 have same rhyme day & may so place an A at the end of each line, then lines 2 and 4 rhyme temperate and date so place a B at the end of these lines…see if you can continue the pattern. The last line is G.
(A,B,A,B,C,D,C,D,E,F,E,F,G,G)

How many lines are in this sonnet?
14 lines.


Critical thinking:

What is this sonnet about?
This sonnet is about how the beauty of a person will last even though a summers beauty will not because it is very short.

What is the theme of this sonnet?
How beauty lasts forever.

Paraphrase the sonnet line by line as you would to a friend. You can paraphrase it using slang's, Spanglish, abbreviated spellings etc. See Hyde’s model above and you have to do this for every line.

Should I compare you to summer's day.
You are way more lovely and more continuous and constant.
Rough winds shake the beloved buds of may.
Summer is way too short.
Sometimes you are more beautiful then heaven.
And Sometimes the beauty will fade.
And the Beauty of someone will be lost.
Or if nature changes it's fortune.
But your adolescence should not fade.
Neither will you lose beauty that you will possess.
Death shall not take you away and make you it's own.
As long as man lives you will live.
So long the beauty will live it will live forever.



On Handout: Based on the comprehension and critical thinking questions: Write your definition of a sonnet here:
The definition of this sonnet is that as long a people live to see the beauty of someone then the beauty will last forever.