What we did on Monday the 27th of Ocotber:

We started the lesson with reading a poem called "Global Village" by a Nigerian author called Yusufu M. Adamu. Then we discussed what the meaning of the poem was. In my opinion, the message in the poem is that we are all the same, even though we look different on the outside and live in different countries. Every person should have the right to be respected.

We walked around in the classroom and read the poem aloud, it was actually fun.

Then there was a poem called "The Right Word" by Pakistan/British writer named Imtiaz Dharker. We read it to ourselves and then we discussed it a bit. The poem was about terrorism, and asking who the terrorists are. That turns out to be a difficult question, because it can be anyone and not just the person who has the “scary looks”. Everyone in the class got one stanza each, except the readers, and made a little play.

At the end of the class, we discussed terrorism.

When we talked about the poems we analysed them and used questions from Gro's blog.

http://oystesegymnasenglish.blogspot.no/p/poetry.html