Please Do Now:

1
Please Do Now

• Imagine you are applying for a job or preparing
  for a college interview. With a partner, take
  turns interviewing one another about your life
  goals. Where do you see yourself in five years?
  In 10 years? In 15 years? Explain what choices
  you may have to make in order to achieve these
  goals.

2
Terms to Know

• Dramatic Monologue a poem in which the speaker
  addresses a silent or absent listener, as if
  engaged in a private conversation
• Rhythm pattern of stressed and unstressed
  syllables in a line of poetry
• Meter rhythm that follows a regular pattern
  from line to line

3
The Seven Ages of Man

• Reread lines 5-9. Notice how Jaques describes
  the infant and the schoolboy. What do these
  descriptions reveal about his attitude toward
  childhood?
• Does Shakespeare use a rhyme scheme for this poem?

4
The Seven Ages of Man

• Read aloud lines 20-25. How many stressed
  syllables are in each line?
• According to Jaques, what happens to people in
  the last stage of life?

5
The Road Not Taken

• Reread lines 1-5. What main idea is the poet
  expressing here?
• What rhyme scheme does Frost use in this poem?
• Where do Frosts roads diverge?
• Which road does the speaker
• choose?