Intro to Poetry/ Robert Frost

(Lesson plans will change due to Keystone testing this week)
Monday:
1. Students will be introduced to Robert Frost: Introduction in text.  (PG. 182-3; Students will read two poems by frost
"After the Apple Picking" and "Mowing"

 Terms: Tone, Rhythm, Rhyme scheme, Assonance, Consonance

2.Introduction:
 Let's talk about the phrase:
YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW.

A. What does this mean?
Literal meaning:
 Figurative Meaning:

B. Discuss apple facts:
The US is one of the world's leading apple-producing countries.  Although Washington produces more apples than any other state, New England is home to many apple orchards as well.  This area is well suited to growing apples because of its cold winters.  While the fruit does not grow in the winter, the trees grow best in areas where the average temperature approaches or reaches freezing for at least two months every year.  The trees blossom in the lat spring, but apple growers do not begin harvesting fruit until late summer or early fall

3. Read the poems and analyze
4. Apply terms
5. Compare the two poems.
Discuss: Setting, Frost's style, structure, theme
6. Answer questions dealing with both poems.  Pg 187
Friday:
Quiz:  Give students a copy of Frost's poem: "Two Tramps in Mud Time"
Have students analyze the poem.

Teacher and students will discuss the exam