Lit. Unit 1, Lesson 4

Stopping By Woods

on a Snowy Evening

Today’s Objectives:

--to learn about the poet, Robert Frost

--to hear and respond to a poem

--to understand poetic terms

--to enjoy and appreciate the poem

--turn your speakers up

--follow along with Frost in your book as he

reads…page 22

Vocabulary

• image : a picture created from the words in a piece of writing

• imagery : language that creates a mental picture by appealing to the senses, that makes readers see, hear, smell, taste, or feel things in their imagination; for example, "the coal-black night," "the stinging cold," "the rapping and tapping of rain on the roof"

What images came to your mind? • (look at poem again)

• mood : the emotions or feelings that are

conveyed in a literary work

• What type of mood does this poem have?

Vocabulary

Exit Ticket!

• Remember to always support your opinion. If I

ask you if you liked a piece of literature, don’t

just say “No. It was dumb.” Be more specific,

like…

• “I didn’t like it because the topic was not

interesting to me, and I did not care for the

words the author used when describing the

woods.”