Today I have been looking in books and on the internet for potential short stories and poems that I could use to adapt for this unit. I think I may have had some success in finding a poem! The only fear I have is that it may not be long enough to fit 5 minutes - but it is a very inspiring poem and I would love to use it. The poem that has caught my eye is The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. The poem is essentially about someone who has come to a fork in a forest, and each road is equally worn and laid with untrodden leaves. The speaker chooses one promising himself he will take the other another day if in a similar situation, but with a difference - he will always choose the road "less travelled by".
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.
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