Today we took notes on the "inference umbrella." Being able to infer is an active reading strategy as well as a necessary skill for truly understanding something as you read. If you were absent, you need to borrow notes from a friend to copy.
We followed this with a look at Robert Frost's poem, The Road Not Taken. We used an annotation strategy involving colored highlighters or pens to get into the poem and understand what he Frost might be saying. My color scheme was as follows:
green = images black = color images red = actions blue = figurative language
After looking at different parts of the poem and discussing it, you were supposed to write a few sentences, describing what you think Frost meant when he said "and that has made all the difference." Use your new found inferring strategies.
Also - notice that Johnny Tremain is at his own road divergence, after losing his path towards becoming a silversmith. What do you think he will do? Infer!
