Frost Analysis

Goals:
Students will understand and utilize literary elements to analyze poetry
Students will read a variety of poems
Students will apply a variety of reading strategies appropriate for reading poetry
 (Listening, Identifying the speaker, Reading according to poetic punctuation, Using picture and imagery)

Students will read, comprehend and interpret poetry

Students will apply poetry terms during reading sessions

Bell Ringer:

Make a chart as indicated below:  Compare and contrast the two poems

"After Apple Picking"             |                    "Mowing"

1. Similarity                                       Similarity
2. Similarity                                       Similarity    
3. Similarity                                       Similarity
4. Similarity                                       Similarity  

1. Difference                                         Difference
2. Difference                                         Difference

Now that we covered two Robert Frost poems, it is your turn.
"Two Tramps in Mud Time"

Literal Definitions:
Tramp
Vocation
Avocation

Pre-Reading Discussion:

Have you ever been in a situation where you did something you didn't want to do because you didn't’t want someone else to replace you/ look better than you?

1. Read the poem "Two Tramps in Mud Time"

2. Complete the graded worksheet

3. We will review the worksheet and discuss/ analyze the poem

4. We will add this poem to the chart we started in today's bell ringer.

5.  We will discuss patterns/ similarities in Frost's poems

Closure:  If time allows, we will complete the 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