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Choices and Consequences: paired poetry
My Notes
Second Read
• Reread the poems to answer these text-dependent comprehension questions.
• Write any additional questions you have about the poems in your Reader/Writer Notebook.
1. Craft and Structure: What does “diverged” mean in the first line of “The Road Not Taken”? How do you know?
2. Key Ideas and Details: Which lines in “The Road Not Taken” tell you about the choice the narrator is faced with and the factors he considers when making his choice?
3. Key Ideas and Details: How does the narrator feel about the choice he made? How do you know?
4. Key Ideas and Details: In the poem “Choices,” which lines indicate that the narrator lacks a real choice?
5. Key Ideas and Details: How does the narrator in “Choices” react to each of the things she can’t do?
6. Key Ideas and Details: Reread the last three lines of “Choices.” What is the emotional impact of these lines?
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