Robert Frost

“The Road Not Taken”

Mr. JacobEnglish 10-1

10-23-09 Info Tech High School

The Poem

• Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

• And sorry I could not travel both• And be one traveler, long I stood• And looked down one as far as I could• To where it bent in the undergrowth • Then took the other, as just as fair,• And having perhaps the better claim,• Because it was grassy and wanted wear• Though as for that the passing there• Had worn them really about the same, • And both that morning equally lay• In leaves no step had trodden black• Oh, I kept the first for another day!• Yet knowing how way leads onto way,• I doubted if I should ever come back. • I shall be telling this with a sigh• Somewhere ages and ages hence;• Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –• I took the one less traveled by,• And that has made all the difference.  - Robert Frost

WHO UNDERSTANDS FROST?

67 % of Girls Understand Poem33 % of Boys Understand Poem IN CLASS 10-1 - Data Collected from Frost Quiz

REGRETFULLY , SPEAKING

• The ironic interpretation- regret and personal myth-making, rationalizing our decisions.

“ I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference”

How does these last two lines possibly show regret ? How is it ironic?

- Answer questions in literature notebook (5 min)

SMALL GROUP/WHOLE CLASS DISCUSSION

Discuss/ Analyze poem(answers to comprehension questions)

SMALL GROUP- 10 minWHOLE CLASS- 10 min

B.J Harrison’s rendition of Robert Frost’s“ A Road Not Taken”

LINKS & MULTIMEDIA

Google Images: www.google.comSearch: “Frost” “A Road Not Taken”

“A ROAD NOT TAKEN” STUDENT VIDEO: Courtesy of TeacherTube.com

HOMEWORK

Visually depict a scene from Frost’s “ A Road Not Taken”

DUE DATE: TOMMAROW

MUST BE COMPLETED ON WHITE (PRINTER )PAPER SKETCH USING #2 PENCIL & COLOR PENCIL TO FILL