The Road Not Taken

"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

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On the next two pages, you will find blue icons. Press on these to read the poem in sections and review the vocabulary.

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Once you have read all of the popups, answer the questions in the corners by pressing on the orange question marks.

Step 3

To receive credit for today's lesson, answer the Exit Ticket in the chat. You may use a private chat.

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Diverged = to split and move out in different directions from a single point

Fair = Not very good or very bad; of average or acceptable quality.

"And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth"

Undergrowth = Plants, bushes, and small tress growing under larger trees in a forest.

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both..." -

"Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same"

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I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence;

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Hence- Later than the present time.

Trodden- To crush or press with your feet; to form (a path) by walking.

Exit Ticket Send Mrs. Saul a chat answering this question: What is your interpretation of the final three lines of this poem? What do you think Frost meant? "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—/ I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference."

Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black.

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