Dear Teachers

Rejection of the rejection

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Scaffolding

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Touch these birds and see the magic!

Coneix el riu Coneix el riu

A wonderful way of sharing thoughts and feelings

Which one?

[The poem is actually a bit funny! The speaker admits in the middle that the roads were "really about the same," but he predicts that when he's old, he'll lie to himself and others, claiming he took the "brave" or "less travelled" path to make his life story sound more meaningful.]

"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

Stanza 1: The Dilemma
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
(The speaker is walking in a forest in autumn (the leaves are yellow) and comes to a fork in the path.)

And sorry I could not travel both
(He feels bad because he is only one person and cannot go down two different paths at the same time.)

And be one traveler, long I stood
(Because he can only pick one, he stands there for a long time thinking about his choice.)

And looked down one as far as I could
(He stares as far as he can down the first path to see where it goes.)

To where it bent in the undergrowth;
(He can only see so far before the path curves and is hidden by the thick bushes and plants.)

Stanza 2: Making the Choice
Then took the other, as just as fair,
(Then he decides to take the second path, which looks just as nice as the first one.)

And having perhaps the better claim,
(He thinks this second path might be a slightly better choice for him.)

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
(It looks like fewer people have walked on it because the grass is still long and fresh.)

Though as for that the passing there
(However, as he actually starts walking on it...)

Had worn them really about the same,
(...he realizes that the people walking there have actually worn down both paths about the same amount.)

Stanza 3: No Turning Back
And both that morning equally lay
(On that specific morning, both paths looked very similar and untouched.)

In leaves no step had trodden black.
(The fallen leaves on both paths were still fresh and hadn't been stepped on or turned black by anyone yet.)

Oh, I kept the first for another day!
(He tells himself he will come back and try the first path some other time.)

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
(But he knows that in life, one road leads to another, and then another.)

I doubted if I should ever come back.
(He realizes he probably won't ever actually return to this exact spot because life will take him too far away.)

Stanza 4: Looking Back in the Future
I shall be telling this with a sigh
(He imagines himself in the future, telling this story with a bit of a dramatic breath or a sigh.)

Somewhere ages and ages hence:
(This will happen a long, long time from now when he is much older.)

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
(He will repeat the story: "There were two roads in the woods, and I...")

I took the one less traveled by,
(He will claim he took the road that fewer people used, even though he previously said they were about the same.)

And that has made all the difference.
(He will tell people that this one choice changed the entire direction of his life.)

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The Parts of Speech Poem