Designed to accompany the Robert Frost poetry anthology for CIE AS English, but will be appropriate for any senior study of the poem Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening.
The lesson first encourages students to write a line of iambic tetrameter to explore how difficult it is (a challenge activity can be to then write a second line that rhymes…) Students then define iambic tetrameter and discuss the aural effect, considering pace and rhythm.
The main part of the lesson then asks students to identify the speaker and situation, then to consider the rhythm and rhyme scheme in detail. It then gives key vocabulary that will be useful when analysing the poem. Students next work to find words that have connotations of either civilisation or wilderness, and then annotate the poem for technique using this vocabulary. Students finally evaluate the metaphorical message of the poem. As a plenary, students demonstrate their knowledge of the poem and the techniques used by Frost within it by completing a targeted, scaffolded essay paragraph about the metaphorical message of the poem. Students finally link in their learning to relevant contextual details and other poems by Frost.
Blank and annotated copies of the poem are also supplied in this download.
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A very helpful resource. Thank you. The perfect level for AS.
Purchased it as part of the £15 pack and all the resources are brilliant! The only issue I've found is the lesson for "stopping by woods on a snowy evening" shows a copy of the poem, and no actual lesson.
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