In “Birches,” Robert Frost celebrates imagination as a way to escape life’s difficulties and reconnect with innocence. The speaker wishes to “get away from earth awhile” but also understands that he must eventually return to reality. Think about the role of imagination in your own life. How does imagination help you cope with challenges, boredom, or stress?

Imagination helps cope with boredom because you can think of almost anything you want. For instance  Honestly, imagination is no help with stress. Say you have work to do that your teacher didn't give you time to do class work in class, now you can imagine everything else you could be doing or what you missing out on. I feel like imagination just adds to stress most of the time.

Summary. We read and annotated the poem "Birches" by Robert Frost. After we read the poem, we were introduced to a project that we have to start that goes along with the poem we read. We started working on the poem and 

Reflection. The poem was interesting, I  liked the poem but I thought "Out Out" was much more engaging. I really like how we annotate the poems together as a class, since it help me stay engaged.