The Great Modern Poets - Robert Frost

This is a 35-slide series of lessons for the Edexcel English Literature A level course on the poetry anthology ‘The Great Modern Poets’.

The resource introduces modernism briefly and then contains individual lessons for the six poems of Robert Frost’s in the anthology:

• The Runaway
• Mending Wall
• Stopping by woods
• Mowing
• The Road Not Taken
• Out, out-

Engaging YouTube videos are linked, there are a variety of discussion questions about language, form and structure and key context is provided.

I have also drawn on online web articles (contained within) as a stepping-off point for discussion - mainly from the Poetry Foundation website, which I found very useful in teaching this scheme. Links to the original articles are included.

Note that for ‘Out, out -’, there is only a one-slide brief for a student presentation, rather than the more in-depth, discussion-based material provided for other poems.