Robert Frost's "Mending Wall": A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content

What? A long-lost poem from Robert Frost? Introduce your class to a poem recently found and published from Robert Frost's personal collection. The lesson includes background information on the author, the poem itself, and a list of...

Whether you are viewing a landscape painting of a farm, examining a still-life portrait of a bowl of fruit, or reading a descriptive poem about cultivating food, you can't deny that agriculture plays a major role in visual and language...

A reading of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken launches an interdisciplinary study of the connection between the meter of a poem and that of a melody. Composers, including many popular musicians like Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison, often use...

Scholars use Robert Frost's poem to better interpret and understand the separation of powers in the United States Constitution. Class members examine and analyze the role checks and balances are supposed to play in the government.

Use all of these exercises, assignments, and assessments or pick and choose your favorites for your study of "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost. In this resource you will find: an informational text to examine, vocabulary lists and...

Even if you have "miles to go before [you] sleep," this poetry activity will be a great way to teach description and rhyme scheme to your middle schoolers. After reading and annotating Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy...

Make poetry relevant by inviting your class to participate in the prompt-writing process. To start off the process, read "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, discussing the poem with the provided questions. Next, read "The Road Not...

Show what you know about Robert Frost, both of his poems and life. Between multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions, a lot of information is covered. Dealing more with breadth than depth, this quiz is good for ending a unit about...

Students examine poetic devices such as rhythm and meter. They compare and constant poems via active class discussion.

In this literary elements instructional activity, students respond to 4 short answer and essay questions pertaining to the themes of language and communication as they read Frost's "Mending Wall." Students may also complete their choice...