Bell Ringer 12/18  Please go to the shelf and get a red book.  Write your name on the inside cover.  Please put a book cover on it.  If you do, you may leave it in my room when you don’t have homework.  Pds. 1, 2, 7, & 9

Bell Ringer 12/18  Please get out your Death of a Salesman study guide and make sure your name is on it.  Pds. 3 & 4

English III  EQ: How can we use textual evidence to support analysis of what Robert Frost says both explicitly and implicitly in his poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening?”  Agenda  Bell Ringer: Getting Textbooks (recording #s)  Agenda/EQ Notes  Frost Video  “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”  Literary Terms Notes  Analysis Questions  Writing Assignment

English III  EQ: How do the content, style, and themes of DoaS work together to convey Miller’s purpose?  Agenda  Bell Ringer/Discussion  Agenda/EQ  Doas Test

Frost Notes  Essential Question: How can we use textual evidence to support analysis of what Robert Frost says both explicitly and implicitly in his poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening?”  Analysis: the process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another.  Explicit: clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text.  Implicit: though unexpressed in the actual text, meaning that may be understood by the reader; implied.

Frost Please turn to your partner and answer this question after the video:  How did Robert Frost’s work come to represent a transitional time in America’s History?

Frost Notes  Stanza: a group of lines in a poem that are considered to be a unit, function like paragraphs, states and develops a single main idea  Quatrain: a four-line stanza  How many stanzas (quatrains) are there in this poem?

Frost Notes  Meter: a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables  Foot: the basic unit of meter, usually one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllables.  Iamb: the most common foot, one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.  How many feet (iambs) are in each line of this poem?  Why do you think Frost chose to use this quick, bouncing rhythm? What sound could he be trying to reproduce?

Frost Notes  Rhyme Scheme: a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem, use a letter of the alphabet to represent each rhyming sound in a poem or stanza.  What rhyme scheme does this poem use?  Stanza 1:  Stanza 2:  Stanza 3:  Stanza 4:

Frost Notes  Speaker: The voice used by an author to tell/narrate a story or poem. The speaker is often a created identity, and should not automatically be equated with the author.  Who is the speaker in this poem? (age, gender, occupation, potential back story)

Frost Notes  Setting  Where and when does poem take place?  Summary  Summarize what happens in the poem in 20 words.