Joanne Ahlberg
College and Career Ready Anchor Standards:
Common Core Grade 4 ELA Standards:
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RL/4/10/
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RI/4/3/
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RI/4/9/
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/W/4/7/
******ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
Robert Frost Facts For Kids: https://kids.kiddle.co/Robert_Frost
Growing up on the Derry Farm: https://www.robertfrostfarm.org/s/lesleys-journalfinal2.pdf
Robert Frost's Farm Animals: https://www.robertfrostfarm.org/s/lesleysfarmanimals.pdf
Lesley's Birds: https://www.robertfrostfarm.org/s/lesleybirds2.pdf
CNN Video showing the Farm: https://www.c-span.org/video/?170208-1/robert-frost-farm
BY ROBERT FROST
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
(poetryfoundation.org)
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.
As told to a child
BY ROBERT FROST
As I went out a Crow
In a low voice said, "Oh,
I was looking for you.
How do you do?
I just came to tell you
To tell Lesley (will you?)
That her little Bluebird
Wanted me to bring word
That the north wind last night
That made the stars bright
And made ice on the trough
Almost made him cough
His tail feathers off.
He just had to fly!
But he sent her Good-by,
And said to be good,
And wear her red hood,
And look for the skunk tracks
In the snow with an ax-
And do everything!
And perhaps in the spring
He would come back and sing."
After successfully completing your assignment will you have gained an introduction to Robert Frost's poetry and his connection to New Hampshire. Further, you will have strengthened your skills in gathering informational data and using text evidence to support and justify your ideas. Lastly, you will have written your first informational Low TIDE piece and gained some reflective practice when thinking about and identifying descriptive language in action.
Joanne Ahlberg