Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken

Designed to accompany the Robert Frost poetry anthology for CIE AS English, but will be appropriate for any senior study of the poem The Road Not Taken.
This lesson reminds students about Frost’s prioritisation of metaphor through a word-decoder starter, and encourages students to reflect on the metaphors they’ve already seen in Frost’s poetry.
The main part of the lesson focuses on a discussion question considering choices and regret, a quick analysis of the title including an evaluation of what the road “less traveled” could metaphorically represent, then supplies a video animation of the poem. The lesson encourages students to identify the speaker and situation and gives comprehension questions to secure their understanding.
The next slides suggest useful vocabulary and appropriate language techniques necessary for studying the poem. The lesson then moves on to close analysis of the rest of the poem.
As a plenary, students demonstrate their learning through completing a paragraph on the metaphor of the road. There is also some relevant contextual knowledge supplied at the end, as well as a modern re-visualisation of the poem.