Chunking the Text: Shakespearian Sonnets

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Directions: First read through the poem and then decide where it would be best to break the poem up
into sections. Draw a box around those different sections, you can have as many or as few as youd like.
Then go back to the top section and read it, circling any confusing words. Once you have read through the
first section, look up the words you found confusing and write their definitions in the margins. On the left
side of the section, write a question you have about the text. On the right side, paraphrase the text. Move
on to the next section and repeat the steps. Once you have completed each section, answer the
questions at the bottom.

1. Draw a box around each chunk or section of text

2. Draw a circle around words you dont know
3. After reading each section of text
Write definitions to the words youve circled on the side of your paper
Write a question you have about the text on the left side of the section
Summarize that section of the text on the right side of the section

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.
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