Robert Frost

Monday and Tuesday:
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 quiz


After Apple Picking Questions:
1. What pictures flash through the speaker's mind as he drifts off to sleep?
2. What sensations does he feel?
3. What does he hear?
4. 2 hyperbole
5. 2. metaphor
6. 2 similes
7. 2 personifications
8. 2 alliterations
9. Symbolism:
-Winter
-Apple picking
-Sleep
-Ladder pointing toward heaven

10. Allegory of the entire play

Mowing:
1. What is one sound the speaker hears?
2. What does the speaker of "Mowing" say the "sweetest dream that labor knows'?
3. Why is the setting of ""Mowing" important?
4. What is the speaker doing?
5. What is the rhyme scheme?
6. 1 example of personification
7. 1 ex. of assonance
8. 1 ex of consonance
9. What is the tone of the poem?
10 How are both poems similar?


Wednesday:  Study Island Exercises

11.A.2.4.1 Identify main ideas and supporting details from the text
11.B.2.1.1 Interpret personification, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, satire imagery, foreshadowing and irony