1. Bell Work
Reread/skim your poems. What is the overall theme in you piece? Now look at each poem individually. What is the emotion portrayed in the poem. Does it change from one poem to the next? Does it change within a single poem?

2. How to Read Poetry Today’s Objectives:
understand various techniques in delivering poetry
understand how to read a sentence in poetry
add stress to choice words to add emphasis and meaning
utilize pauses to create tension

3. by Bruce Lansky for this
I’d Rather
by Bruce Lansky for this
I’d rather wash the dishes I’d rather kiss a frog. I’d rather get an F in math or run a ten-mile jog.
I’d rather do my homework. I’d rather mow the lawn. I’d rather take the garbage out. I’d rather wake at dawn.
I’d rather dine on Brussels sprouts or catch the chicken pox. I’d rather do most anything than clean the litter box.

4. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
No Punctuation
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 marked 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

5. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
As Written
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
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 marked 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.

6. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Paragraph Form
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 marked 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.

7. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
With Timing Count
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,(1)
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, (1) long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;(1)
Then took the other,(1) as just as fair,(1)
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,(1)
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,(1)
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.(1,2)
Oh,(1) I marked the first for another day!(1,2)
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.(1,2,3)
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:(1,2)
Two roads diverged in a wood,(1) and I,(1)
I took the one less traveled by,(1)
And that has made all the difference. (1,2,3)
Comma , (1)
Semicolon ; (1)
Colon : (1,2)
Period . (1,2)
Paragraph (1,2,3)

8. My Baby Sister by Bruce Lansky
sister’s
really
swell. I
love
her
smile,
but
not
her
smell.