1. 9-10 Warm-Up: 9th Grade
(Today’s Warm-up is for a grade. If
you are talking, spacing out, or
anything other than writing about
Maria, you will receive a zero.)

2. Preview P. 33
List the unfamiliar words from the poem:
• yellow wood
• undergrowth
• trodden
• claim
• trodden
• hence

3. Is this poem really about the woods? Is it really
about walking through the forest?

4. The first road is . The
speaker feels that this road is…On
the other hand, the second road
is… For example…

5. Sometimes you have to
make difficult decisions
to do what is right for
you.
Being successful can mean taking
risks and not letting others make
choices for you.

8. 9/10 Warm-Up:
Pretend you have a friend who
isn’t doing well in school. Write
a letter persuading them to
choose to go to college. Be
sincere and specify what they
need to do. Be realistic.

9. Add to your notes…
• Blocks of Text
• Chart
• Graph
• Bulleted List
• Can be read in any
order
• Organizes facts
• Illustrates numerical
data
• Gives facts at a glance

10. After we read the first page…
•List 3 conclusions in your
notebook about the pie
chart entitled
“Increasing Diversity”