Introduction
Research and Reflect Upon Robert Frost's Life and Poetry
College and Career Ready Anchor Standards:
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.2
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.10
Common Core Grade 4 ELA Standards:
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RL/4/10/
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RI/4/3/
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RI/4/9/
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/W/4/7/
Task
Performance Task:
Imagine you are a reporter for a local news station. Your producer has given you an assignment to create an informational segment about the life of Robert Frost. Like all good journalists and reporters, you will need to conduct some research and become familiar with some of his poetry. Your producer has given you some flexibility on how you can report this.
After reviewing your resources and gathering notes about the facts and details you learned about (using a TIDE organizer), you will need to select one of the following options as your project assignment:
1. Compose and submit a Low-TIDE report about Frost's life (in your own words).
Your Low-TIDE report will need to be organized as follows:
Paragraph 1 - Introduction - Who is Robert Frost?
Paragraph 2 - Robert Frost - The Early Years
Paragraph 3 - Robert Frost's Life on the Farm
Paragraph 4 - Robert Frost's Accomplishments (Some of his most important)
Paragraph 5 - How has his work made all of our lives richer?
2. Create an in depth interview script with a partner that includes questions and answers about Robert Frost’s life and answers all of the “Essential Questions”. Select who will be Robert Frost and the interviewer. Video Record your interview at school as an artifact of your research.
3. Create a poster detailing information about Robert Frost’s life and work in a timeline or artistic representation that also answers the project’s “Essential Questions”.
******ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
1. Who is Robert Frost?
2. What were some of his many jobs and greatest accomplishments?
3. Where did Robert Frost live during his life?
4. Why was Frost inspired by nature?
5. When did Robert Frost become a published author?
6. How is he connected to New Hampshire?
Process
Online resources for your research:
Robert Frost Facts For Kids: https://kids.kiddle.co/Robert_Frost
Frost Farm Resources:
Growing up on the Derry Farm: https://www.robertfrostfarm.org/s/lesleys-journalfinal2.pdf
Robert Frost's Farm Animals: https://www.robertfrostfarm.org/s/lesleysfarmanimals.pdf
Lesley's Birds: https://www.robertfrostfarm.org/s/lesleybirds2.pdf
CNN Video showing the Farm: https://www.c-span.org/video/?170208-1/robert-frost-farm
Evaluation
Additional Poetry Assignment:
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First, begin this section by viewing the Flocabulary "What is Poetry" Video
Second, Please read each poem below and then view it's video. Think about how Robert Frost has used descriptive language within his poetry.
Third, watch the video Figurative Language Lesson. Then:
A. Select one poem and read and watch it's corresponding video again.
B. Next watch this Similies and Metaphors Video
C. Use this Google Doc to answer the questions using text evidence to support
your thinking. After completing this Word document save it and submit it to your
Google Classroom Assignment.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
BY ROBERT FROST
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
(poetryfoundation.org)
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 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.
The Last Word of a Blue Bird
As told to a child
BY ROBERT FROST
As I went out a Crow
In a low voice said, "Oh,
I was looking for you.
How do you do?
I just came to tell you
To tell Lesley (will you?)
That her little Bluebird
Wanted me to bring word
That the north wind last night
That made the stars bright
And made ice on the trough
Almost made him cough
His tail feathers off.
He just had to fly!
But he sent her Good-by,
And said to be good,
And wear her red hood,
And look for the skunk tracks
In the snow with an ax-
And do everything!
And perhaps in the spring
He would come back and sing."
Conclusion
After successfully completing your assignment will you have gained an introduction to Robert Frost's poetry and his connection to New Hampshire. Further, you will have strengthened your skills in gathering informational data and using text evidence to support and justify your ideas. Lastly, you will have written your first informational Low TIDE piece and gained some reflective practice when thinking about and identifying descriptive language in action.
Teacher Page
Joanne Ahlberg