Last Year/This Year

We finished watching our James Bond movie, and returned to our poetry unit.

We began by brainstorming how we feel the day before the first day of school, what we think about, and what issues tend to be in our head every morning before we go to school.  We found that some of us have social reasons and concerns, while some of us have academic ones.

We then read the poem "Back to School Last Year/Back to School This Year" and we noted powerful words/phrases from each section.  We then discussed which emotion we thought the poet wanted us to feel in each section.  We agreed that the first section was primarily focused on nervousness and fear, while the second section seemed more confident and calm.

We concluded by summarizing the poem in a couple of sentences.  We will write our own "Last Year/This Year" poems next class.