Journey North Manatees

Robert Frost wrote a famous poem about choosing between two roads called
The Road Not Taken. Read the poem below or go to this website and listen to a recording of him recite it too.

Then, write a poem of your own about what leads one manatee to migrate to one location, while another manatee will go elsewhere. For background, read the lesson The Road Less Traveled.

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
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
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

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 passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked 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 40 Best Instructional Strategies are part of the Reading and Writing Connections. These utilize research-based instructional strategies to help students develop essential skills as they delve deeply into their understanding of the world through texts with real people, events, and issues.