Robert

Frost “The Road Not

Taken”
Mr. Jacob 10-23-09
English 10-1 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
Poem
33 % of Boys Understand
Poem
IN CLASS 10-1
- Data Collected from
 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 min

WHOLE CLASS- 10 min

B.J Harrison’s rendition of Robert Frost’s

“ A Road Not Taken”
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“A Road Not Taken”

“A ROAD NOT TAKEN” STUDENT VIDEO

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 HOMEWORK

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

Taken”

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