Monday, March 2, 2015

Hello English 1 students!

Here is today's agenda:

1. Warm Up: read the WHOLE poem and write down the rhyme scheme

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

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,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

2. Review "Lonely as a Cloud"

3. Describe a natural scene:

Think of your favorite outdoor place or some place you have been on vacation. You are going to write your own description.

-First, jot down details you remember from that scene (what did you see, smell, hear?)

-Decide whether your description will be a poem or a few paragraphs

-Write three paragraphs describing your natural scene.

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