Page 12 - Point 5 Literature Program Option 1 Teachers Guide (2) (1)

Summative Assessment

answer all the questions.
Total: 100 points

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
robert Frost

1. Where is the traveler at the beginning of this poem? (10 points)

2. This poem is set at a certain time of year.

a. Which season is it? (10 points)

b. Which words / ideas in the poem tell us this?

3. a. explain in your own words:
Oh, I kept the first for another day! (10 points)

b. did the traveler really mean it? explain. (10 points)

Use the hoTS of Distinguishing different perspectives to answer the
following question:

4. a. Why do you think the poet called the poem The Road Not Taken and

not The Road Taken? (25 points)

b. explain how this hoTS helped you answer the question. (5 points)

5. read the following statement and then answer the question. (30 points)

Many of robert Frost’s poems are set in nature. he uses these
natural settings to discuss problems of human nature and society.

how does this poem fit in with the above description of Frost’s poetry?

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