Multiple Perspectives:

Student Answer Sheet

1. Warm-Ups: Study the three provided images and answer the following questions. Make sure you can
justify your answers to others in the class.
Image 1: Elephant – How many legs does this elephant have? ___________________________
Justification ____________________________________________________________________
Image 2: Face – Is this man facing forward or sideways? ___________________________ Justification
____________________________________________________________________
Image 3: Bars – How many bars actually between these two people? ______________________
Justification ____________________________________________________________________
The Dress: What color is this dress?
Justification ____________________________________________________________________

2. Snap Metaphors: How is falling in love like a pair of shoes that are too small? Brainstorm your
response here and develop as many ways as possible.
 3. “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost: For all answers, please provide textual evidence.
What possible options does the speaker face?

The author faces either going down a path that many have already
gone down, as he could follow in their paths, or he could choose
the path that no one has taken, and be on his own.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
Why is the speaker sorry he couldn’t take both paths?
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair, How are the two roads different and how are the similar?
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there What is the author expressing about his final choice in lines 13-15?
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.
The author is expressing that he is content with the choice that he
made, no longer wanting to go onto the first path, as he has already
found his way along the second path.
Re-read lines 13-15. What might Frost be referring to when he
declares “Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I
should ever come back”?
Which road does the author take? The first or the second? How do
you know?

The author takes the second road as he states, “I took the one less
traveled by” (19), which would be the second road, which was
described as “it was grassy and wanted wear” (8).

4. Direct Analogy: How is the poem “The Road Not Taken” like attending a funeral of a close friend?

When you are at a funeral for a close friend, you would think of all the adventures and things that you two
could have done, but didn’t, and you might feel some regret, like the narrator did in the poem. You would in
the end be happy for living your life with your friend the way that you did.
5. Personal Analogy: Pretend that you are one of the two roads that the narrator contemplates taking.
Answer the following questions as if you were the road.
Are you the road the narrator choose or If you are the chosen road, why If you are “the road not taken”,
are you the road “the road not taken”? where you selected? What why where you rejected? What
information from the text information from the next
indicates this selection? indicates this selection?
I am the road taken as no one know
what I would hold, and few would
choose me. I was selected as I was the one
that was “less traveled by”
(19), as it was more of an
adventure to make your own
path than follow everyone
else.

The narrator states the s/he “took the
one less traveled by, / And that has
made all the difference.” Where did you
lead the narrator that “has made all the
difference”?
I lead the narrator to a greater life, one
filled with more joy, discovery, and
adventure, than the path that most “Two roads diverged in yellow wood.”
people took.
Assume that after the narrator has chosen his path, a group of
unassuming sophomores come to the same fork in the road. Make
a case to the group that you are the road they should travel on. In
poem form write your own convincing and logical argument to this
group of youngsters. Refer to direct evidence from Frost’s poem
when possible.
One path taken, one path alone
One leads to life, following in other’s footsteps
I lead to life following in your footsteps.

I have “made all the difference”,

The road always taken leaves you wanting more.
You are so young to follow everyone else,
 Make your own rules, be yourself,
Don’t take the path always chosen,

Be unique
Take the path that no one shall ever speak

6. Compressed Conflict: Perspective and Interpretation

List 5 important words to describe one’s List antonyms for each word to the left
perspective or interpretation

1. Choices 1. Decision

2. Saying
2. Mute

3. Think
3. Told

4. Opinion
6. Fact

5. Bias
5. Unbiased

Review your original list and its antonyms. Do any of the pairs of words seem to fight each other but still describe
perspective or interpretation? Create three Compressed Conflicts.
Example: Focused / Divided: My focused attention on the divided roads on the poem resulted in top marks for the
class!
7. Draw the best answer in the blank: The reality of one’s perspective is like _______________ emoji.
List as many reasons as possible (minimum of five) why one person’s perspective is like your
selected emoji.