1. Bell Ringer 12/20 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.

2. Bell Ringer 12/20
Please be able to define the following terms in your own words by the beginning of class:
Analysis
Explicit
Implicit
Revisit your notes from yesterday to find my definition, but please don’t just read my definition.

3. 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/Reviewing Vocab
Agenda/EQ Notes
Frost Video
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Literary Terms Notes
Analysis Questions
“Acquainted with the Night”

4. 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.

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. 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:

9. 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)

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