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“The Road Not Taken” ** This final six-week unit of eighth grade encourages students to explore their strengths by reading about strong characters who ventured against conventional wisdom in search of the greater good. **

 The stage is set by Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken.” Although students read from classic and contemporary literature, writing and class discussions focus on how literature helps us define the tension between the needs of the individual and the greater good of society. The goal of this unit is for students not only to apply the reading, writing, speaking, and listening strategies and skills they have learned up to this point in the year, but also to analyze how authors use allegory, symbolism, and satire to affect the reader. Students will revisit “The Road Not Taken” as the unit concludes, in order to see how this unit led to deeper understanding of the poem. This unit ends with an essay in response to the essential question. (The essay is followed with a choice for students: write their own narratives or create their own multimedia presentations that demonstrate what they learned this year.)

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