The Road Not Taken / Robert Frost

For students aiming to learn the poem according to the module F English requirements . Based on UPP 5 Points Literature Program Option 1 .

Pre Reading Activity 

Answer the questions via Google forms. Click the following link:

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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;

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken

Some Basic Understanding Questions

Take a trivia quiz to make sure you understand the first stanza of the poem .

Good luck !

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,

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken

Some Basic Understanding Questions

Play a game to make sure you understand the second stanza of the poem .

Good luck !

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 on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken

Some Basic Understanding Questions

Take a trivia quiz to make sure you understand the third stanza of the poem .

Good luck !

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.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken

Some Basic Understanding Questions

Take a trivia quiz to make sure you understand the fourth stanza of the poem .

Good luck !

Analysis and Interpretation

1 . Read the definition of the term methaphor from the dictionary:

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/metaphor?s=ts

Answer question 1 a+b in the Google form

2 .  Answer question 2 a+b in the Google form

3 . Read the definition of the term paradox from the dictionary:

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/paradox?s=t

Answer question 3 in the Google form

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Hots – Distinguishing Different Perspectives

Watch the video :

Think about how the reaction of the people changed after changhing the writing on the sign.

Read the definition of the skill: It enables you to see how different people see or react in a different way to different people, objects or situations.

Useful Vocabulary:

perspective, point of view, attitude, differences,

outside, inside, looking from above,

looking from the side , however, on the one hand, on the otherhand, opinion, reader, narrator outlook, standpoint, perception, side.

Let’s Practice 

The speaker in the poem claims he took the road that “wanted wear” (second stanza) and that was “less traveled by” (fourth stanza).

Answer question 4 in the Google form.

Read the two definitions of the word “sigh”(fourth stanza):

1. sign of relief
2. sign of regret

Answer question 5 in the Google form.

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Bridging Text and Context

Watch the video about Robert Frost’s life and answer question 6 in the Google form.

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Post Reading Activity

Watch the video :

Answer question 7 in the Google form as an opinion composition.

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