Conformity

In conjunction with our reading of Lois Lowry's The Giver, we're discussing conformity in the eighth grade. This week we'll be looking at the famous Yale Milgram experiment. Click on this link to watch an informative 10-minute overview of Milgram's work.

Here is the original experiment:

Robert Frost

We're reading poetry by Frost in the eleventh grade. (Hmm... As I write this, I just learned that the fourth-grade native-speaker English students have been reading him, too!) Here's an excellent link to read his poems online—and a short biography. The comments following each poem are quite interesting, too!

Here's an American college student's interpretation of "The Road Less Traveled":

Here is Frost himself reading "The Road Less Traveled":