Lesson Plan Template

Candidate Name: Missy Rankin

Strategy (circle one): Task Rotation; NAL; Mystery; Decision Making;
C/C Thinking; Metaphorical; Windows Notes; Other
Unit Name
Poetry Analysis
Standards (Content and TAG)
Georgia Standards of Excellence:

ELAGSE6RL10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including
stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with
scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
ELAGSE6W9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis,
reflection, and research. a. Apply grade 6 Reading standards to literature (e.g.,
Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres [e.g., stories and poems;
historical novels and fantasy stories] in terms of their approaches to similar themes and
topics).

TAG Standards:
8. The student participates in small group discussions to argue persuasively or reinforce others good points.
1. The student asks probing, insightful, and relevant questions.

Lesson Name
(Hours/Days)
NAL- Poetry
Grade
6th Grade

Time Needed
1 day (50 minutes)
Subject
Language Arts

Course
Advanced Mixed Model

Essential Question(s)
What should students know when lesson is completed?
How can we discover the theme of a poem?

Teacher Lesson Preparation

Find poem The Road Not Taken
Create questions for discussion in a graphic organizer using Costas Levels
of Questioning
Prepare interactive notebook for handout
Activating Strategy (for example: Hook/Mini-Lesson/Warm-Up/Connection to Prior
Learning)
Students will watch the video on Flocabulary reintroducing poetry. The link is
attached below https://www.flocabulary.com/what-is-poetry/

Instructional Sequence and Activities including use of technology

1. Flocabulary Video (see above)- 5 minutes

2. Distribute a copy of the poem to the students- The Road Not Taken by
Robert Frost (see attached) 2 minutes
3. Distribute graphic organizer to students (see attached) 2 minutes
4. Read the first stanza of the poem 2 minutes
5. Pause and answer first discussion question 5 minutes
6. Repeat reading a stanza of the poem and answering a discussion question
for the remaining stanzas 20 minutes
7. In groups, allow students to select a poem of their choice from the
textbook. Students will read the poem and create their own discussion
questions of their own for the other groups to use while reading the
poem.- Remaining class time and the following day
Assessment Strategies

Observations of student discussions taking place throughout

Student recordings on graphic organizer

Differentiation
Scaffolds/ Interventions/Extensions/Enrichment
Students will be placed in heterogeneous groups based on assessment
data
Students will be given the opportunity to research further information
about poems based on their group discussions
Students will be given the opportunity to research with their own poem of
choice
Materials/Links/Text References/Resources
See attachments

The Road Not Taken

By: Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Stanza 1:
Explain to your group
what you infered from
the first stanza of the
poem.

Stanza 2:
Do you recognize a
rhyme pattern in the
poem so far? Share what
effect is this causing on
you as a reader?

Stanza 3:
Frost says "I doubted if I
should ever come back."
What do you infer from
this statement about
Frost's mood?

Stanza 4:
What would the world be
like if everyone took "the
road less traveled"?