Bridging Text and Context What is the Bridging

Bridging Text and Context

What is the Bridging Text and Context question? The Bridging Text and Context question : connect a quote or new information to a story or poem. Module D: a paragraph of 80 -100 words Module F: a paragraph of 60 -80 words Length:

Bridging Text and Context requires the HOTS of Making connections. 1. finger : hand = toe : . . 2. water : thirsty = food : . . 3. sun : day =. . . . . : night 4. fork : salad =. . . . . : soup 5. kitten : cat = puppy : . . 6. sky : airplane =. . . . . : ship 7. huge : big = tiny : . . 8. notes : symphonies =. . . . . : stories 9. happy: laugh = sad : . . 10. falafel: Israel =. . . . . : Italy

The questions What is the quote about? • Who is the speaker? • Who is he/she speaking to? • Explain what the quote says in your own words. • How does the quote connect to the text? • Give at least one example of the connection to the text. • How does the quote add to your understanding of the text? •

What is the quote about? Who is the speaker? Who is he/she speaking to? Explain what the quote says in your own words. How does the quote connect to the text? Give at least one example of the connection to the text. How does the quote add to your understanding of the text?

The “formula” � What the quote helps you understand in general about the text � A clearly stated connection to the text � An example from the text that supports the connection

Useful Phrases: The following quote helps me understand……… • The following information about the author adds • to my understanding of the story/poem because For example…. . •

Bridging Text and Context Read the background information Robert Frost is often called a New England poet. How is this reflected in the poem The Road Not Taken? Robert Frost (1874 -1963) was born in San Francisco, California, but spent most of his life in a rural area of New England in the northeastern part of the United States. The area is known for its hills, woods, farms and small towns, which Frost depicts in his poems. Frost claims that the poem The Road Not Taken (published in 1916) was written about his friend Edward Thomas with whom he walked in the woods in London, where he lived from 1912 -15. Frost said that while walking, they would come to different paths, and after choosing one, Thomas would worry, wondering what they might have missed by not taking the other path.

Robert frost spent most of his life in New England was influenced by nature. The poem The Road Not Taken is set in the woods and describes the woods, the yellow leaves on the trees and the thick undergrowth. Although Frost got the idea for the poem while he was walking in the woods in London, it is set in the woods of New England-in the type of countryside that Frost knew well.

Post-Reading Write a half-page diary entry of the speaker in which he describes a day when he made an important decision in his life. You may use some of expressions from the poem. In the diary entry you can mention: what decision he made in life on the day he chose that path in the woods what he has done-or not done-in life whether the speaker is happy with his choices or not(are his sighs ones of joy or sadness? ) what he might change if he were younger