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Choices and Consequences: paired poetry
aCTIvITy 1.3
Learning Targets
• Analyze choices and consequences presented in a text.
• Compare and contrast the effect of language and diction in two poems.
Preview
In this activity, you will read and analyze two poems in which the narrators
consider choices. Word
LearNING sTraTeGIes:
Webbing, Marking the Text, Close Reading, Drafting
Setting a Purpose for Reading
• Read the two poems to imagine the visual or emotional scene the narrators describe.
CoNNeCTIoNs
Roots and Affixes
Narrator comes from the Latin
word narrare, which means
• Circle unknown words and phrases. Try to determine the meaning of the words “to tell” or “to make known.”
by using context clues, word parts, or a dictionary.
• When reading, pause at the end of stanzas or in other places where there seems to be a natural break. Write a backslash ( / ) where you pause.
The root narra- appears in the English words narrate, narration, and narrative.
AbouT The AuThor
Robert Frost (1874–1963) was one of America’s most popular 20th-century poets. For much of his life, he lived on a farm in New Hampshire and wrote poems about farm life and the New England landscape. His apparently simple poems, however, have many layers of meaning.
Literary Terms
A stanza describes a division of lines into equal groups. Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is
divided into four stanzas of five lines each.
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