Jack's+Design

[This design reflects a modification from the results established during group work on Tuesday. The modified result: for every student to develop and claim a personal interpretation to Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken." The assessment of the results answers the question: "did every student develop and claim a personal interpretation of the poem"? ]

Design

"The Road Not Taken" is presented to the class as a process exercise; it is not expected that the student will have prior knowledge of it. Each student will receive a printed copy of the poem and the poem will also be projected (via computer or overhead projector or written on blackboard).

Initially, four students will read aloud the four stanzas of the poem. Second, each student will take turns reading a single line until the poem is completed. Third, the poem will be broken down further into grammatical units (i.e. subject verb, prepositional phrase) of meaning and read by taking turns. The class as a whole will decide what constitutes a unit of meaning. Four, the individual student will be asked to identify words that are important either for the meaning of the poem and/or for his/her individual interpretation of it. Students will be asked to visualize: first, each unit of meaning, then each line, each stanza, and finally the poem as a whole. Each student will write out a personal visualization of what he/she "sees" in the poem. Finally, each student will present to the class his/her individual interpretation of "The Road Not Taken."