For this project, I used hyperlinks to add pictures and video to this Sonnet. The purpose of this exercise is to get students engaged in a text, as well as help them to figure out the language on their own as they piece the words together. By having students complete this assignment you can ensure that they have done a critical reading of the text.
Sonnet 18
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou are 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 untrimme’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou gow’st;
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
