Exploring the Impact of Choices

Seventh grade Language Arts students explored two poems that focus on the topic of choice, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost and “Choices” by Nikki Giovanni, and analyzed the two narrators’ reflections about choices. They considered what the authors can teach us about choices and how they might apply this new knowledge to their own lives, especially as 7th grade students who are not far removed from new choices made in middle school and to the bigger choices soon to be made as they transition into high school. Throughout the year, the students will journey through fiction and nonfiction to analyze how choices impact them in their daily lives and how they can prepare for the future.