Page 11 - Point 5 Literature Program Option 1 Teachers Guide (2) (1)

7. a. The speaker’s perspective is that it is acceptable to take risks and be original.
b. A perspective that says it is better and maybe safer to conform – to do what others have already done or go
where others have already gone.

Tone is the next literary term students are asked to relate to.

8. a. sorry I could not travel both
b. long I stood
c. Oh, I kept the first for another day!
9. A traveler came to a fork in the road in a wood. From what he could see, both roads looked very similar.
The traveler chose the road he thought fewer people had used.

Bridging Text and Context

In this task, students relate to how Frost’s biography influenced his writing. Use rubric 3 on page
88 to mark written answers.
Answers might include:
1. The “less traveled by” road that Frost took in his life was to become a poet. This is a profession or way of life that
very few people choose. Although he was a farmer and a teacher, it was his poetry that made him famous in the
English-speaking world and that made his life different.

2. His background of living in the countryside and working as a farmer helps me understand why he chose the setting
of a journey through the woods to present his ideas. It is an image that is immediate and common to him.

Post-Reading Activity
Let students choose one of these activities. Use rubric 4 on page 88 to mark written answers.

Reflection
Students can answer these questions in writing.

Summative Assessment
Photocopy page 12 and have students answer the questions in class. decide if you wish to let them
look at the text of the poem in their coursebook.
Possible answers appear on page 13 of this guide, but remember to accept any well justified responses.

as this is the first text and only one hoTS has been taught explicitly, students are not asked to
choose a hoTS, but they are asked to explain how it helped them answer the question.

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