Shakespeare’s Sonnet 138: A Close Reading Module

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This short lesson can act as a close reading module for one Shakespearean text. Sonnet 138 is accessible and witty,and is usually a favorite with students as it is about love, trust, male-female relationships, and (obliquely) sex.

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9 Learning Standards

Aligns to CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.1 (Major alignment)
1. Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

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Aligns to CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.2 (Major alignment)
2. Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

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Aligns to CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.5 (Major alignment)
5. Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.

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Aligns to CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.9 (Major alignment)
9. Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare).

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10. By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 9—10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of the grades 9—10 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

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Aligns to CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.9 (Major alignment)
9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

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Aligns to CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.1 (Major alignment)
1. Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9—10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

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Aligns to CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.9-10.4 (Major alignment)
4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 9—10 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.

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Aligns to CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.9-10.5 (Major alignment)
5. Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

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Sonnet 138 Shakespeare
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