📖 Reading Literature: The Road Not Taken (Grade 10)

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Read the text. Then answer using details from the text.

The Road Not Taken — Robert Frost (1916, public domain)

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 kept 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.

1. What choice does the speaker face?

2. Are the roads actually very different? Cite a line.

3. Why does the speaker doubt he will come back?

4. Why might the speaker tell the story "with a sigh"?

Theme: State the theme and explain how it develops over the text.

Answer key: 1) which of two roads to take in a wood · 2) no — "Had worn them really about the same" / "both that morning equally lay" · 3) "way leads on to way" — one choice leads to others · 4) it may express regret or nostalgia; the story he tells later may simplify the choice · Theme: People shape the meaning of their choices when they look back on them.

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About this grade 10 worksheet

Free Grade 10 English worksheet (Common Core RL.9-10.1): read "The Road Not Taken" and answer questions about key details, characters and theme. Skill: Key ideas and details in literature. Level: Grade 10 — also suits Year 11 (UK).

For teachers: skills & standards

CCSS RL.9-10.1: Key ideas and details in literature
CCSS RL.9-10.2: Key ideas and details in literature
CCSS RL.9-10.3: Key ideas and details in literature
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