Here is the next set of poetry assignments that I pulled together for my high school age boys. Mr. A likes me to assign specific poems to focus on each week so for most weeks there are assigned poems to read. He would always end up reading more selections but the assignment gave him a starting spot. We used the two books listed at the bottom of the blog entry as the foundation of our study. (If you read in a reader you will more than likely need to click over to the blog to see them.)
We are featuring the poetry of Robert Frost (six weeks).
Week 1
From Lemony Snicket's The Slippery Slope.1. Read "The Road Not Taken". Start to memorize this poem and prepare for presenting at the end of six weeks. You can hear him read the poem on YouTube.com. (Work on this each week.)
"A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn't hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is now dead."
2. How are the roads in this poem a metaphor? I know you could write a complete essay on this one metaphor but just give me a good paragraph explaining how you see the two roads as metaphors.
Week 2
1. Read "Birches" as you listen to the YouTube audio.
2. Read the information on blank and free verse.
3. Print out Birches and mark the syllables to see the iambic pentameter. (We have previously done work on this sort of exercise so it was a review.)
Week 3
1. Read "Mending Wall". Then read the SparkNotes.com information.
2. Find some examples of assonance.
3. Notice the blank verse. We used this website as a quick review.
4. Listen to the YouTube recording.
Week 4
1. Read "The Tuft of Flowers".
2. Notice the rhyme scheme.
3. Pick three of the questions to answer from your poetry analysis page.
Week 5
1. Read all of the winter poems in Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost. Choose one to print out.
2. Watercolor a scene to go with the poem.
Week 6
1. Complete an author biography page for Robert Frost.
2. Present your recitation of "The Road Not Taken".
1 comments:
Robert Frost is my favorite American poet. I remember learning Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening with my daughter two years ago. We had the wonderful Robert Frost "Poetry for Young People" book you link to as well as an illustrated children's book of the poem.
Just stopping by to say "hi" and see how your year is going. I miss it all, but am reveling in some new-found maturity at my house. Can you believe it? My boy became a READER This year!! He's thrilled with the Ukrainian Folktales I had purchased for our not-to-be-sophmore year!
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