A tool tying Frost's poem "Design" to a zoology lesson in symbiosis... (includes a quick advance organizer to help scaffold all of my bio students into the poem)

1. DESIGN
by Robert Frost

2. key words
Heal-all: a common roadside wildflower in the mint family that is usually blue
in color.
Blight: anything that spoils or damages something.
Froth: anything that rises or overflows in a soft, light mass (figurative).
Wayside: the edge of a road.
Kindred: similar in kind- related.
Thither: to or toward that place (archaic).
Appall: to greatly dismay or horrify.
Design: purpose, planning or intention that exists or is thought to exist behind
an action, fact, or material object.