The document provides an analysis of the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, including a review of vocabulary used in the poem, a stanza by stanza breakdown and analysis, and discussion questions about the themes and symbolism within the poem such as the speaker's choice to take the less traveled road and how that decision influences his life. The document also includes activities for students to further examine the poem such as role playing a decision making scenario and evaluating desirable human character traits.

1. The Road Not Taken
Adeluisa G. Santiago
Discussant

2. 1. Preliminary Activities
a. Prayer
b. Greeting
c. Attendance
2. Review

3. By Robert Frost

4. Robert Frost (1874-1963)

5. • Vocabulary Clue Meaning:
Match the Vocabulary word and its definition. Write the letter
of the correct answer.
__________1. From this time a. claim
__________2. Walked on b. diverged
__________3. Promising; favorable c. fair
__________4. Branched off; d. hence
moved in a different direction e. trodden
__________5. Small trees and plants f. undergrowth
growing beneath larger trees
__________6. Demand on right

6. • Vocabulary Clue Meaning:
Match the Vocabulary word and its definition. Write the letter
of the correct answer.
_____D___1. From this time A. claim
_____E_ _2. Walked on B. diverged
_____C___3. Promising; favorable C. fair
_____B___4. Branched off; D. hence
moved in a different direction E. trodden
_____F___5. Small trees and plants F. undergrowth
growing beneath larger trees
_____A___6. Demand on right

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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,

12. 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

13. Pick out the insignificant detail from every stanza.
Analyze the poem using graphic organizer below.
Use the sentence prompts to help you.
Stanza 1The speaker is in the woods
and comes to a spot in the road where
the road is forked.
The speaker is sorry…
He…
Until…

14. Stanza 1The speaker is in the woods
and comes to a spot in the road where
the road is forked.
The speaker is sorry…he can’t travel both
roads
He…looks down one road as far as he can
Until…the road turns

15. Stanza 2
The speaker takes the other road
which is…
He chooses this road because…
Because grass is growing on it,
and the road seemed…
Though…

16. Stanza 2
The speaker takes the other road
which is…just as nice as the first one
He chooses this road because…it
might be a better road
Because grass is growing on it, and
the road seemed…to need to be used
Though… he realized that roads
are same amount

17. Stanza 3
Both roads were…
The leaves…
The speaker saves the first road for…
But, the speaker knows that…
And the speaker doesn’t think…

18. Stanza 3
Both roads were…equal
The leaves…were undisturbed on the road,
no one stepped on them
The speaker saves the first road
for…some other time
But, the speaker knows that…one turn
along a road will lead to another
And the speaker doesn’t think …he’ll ever
go back down that first road

19. Stanza 4
Sometime in the future, the
speaker will be…
At a time…
That two roads…
And he…
And that was…

20. Stanza 4
Sometime in the future, the
speaker will be…telling this story
At a time…many years from now
That two roads…split in the
woods
And he…took the one less
traveled

21. Focusingon content
Divide the class into four.Let them
answer the guide questions with their
members.

22. Who is the author
of the poem?
Where is the
setting?
What do the two

23. What do the last two lines of
the poem “I took the one less
travelled by and that has
made all the difference
suggest?
What attitude of the speaker
does choosing the road less

24. What do you think would have
happened? Had the traveler
made a different choice?
Does his choice influence his
behavior in life?

25. Have you encountered a
situation in which you had to
make a choice?
Did you think you made the
right decision? Was the
outcome favorable or not?

26. Be in the same group.
In a role-play depict a situation where awise
decision-making is gone through.

27. Based on the role
playing that you have done
a while ago. What did you
learn from it? Point out the
attitude that influences
one’s behavior.

28. Evaluation
(Group Activity)
Figure out desirable human
attitude traits from the distributed
sketches. Take a stand and have a
brief explanation.

29. [a sketch of a bird]
[a sketch of a sun]
[a sketch of a star on a
palm]
[a sketch of a leaf]

30. • Assignment:
A. On an oslo paper design your career path respectively.
Have an appropriate title for it.
B. Please read “The Railway Train” and look for the
extended metaphors.