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Lesson 2 – Going Home

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I. Enjoy a song version of the text

II. Home-going of a different sort

III.Read a poem—Returning Home

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TIE A YELLOW RIBBON ROUND THE

OLD OAK TREE

I'm coming home I've done my timeNow I've got to know what is and isn't mineIf you received my letter telling you I'd soon be freeThen you'll know just what to do if you still want meIf you still want me

Oh tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak treeIt's been three long years do you still want meIf I don't see a ribbon round the old oak treeI'll stay on the bus forget about us put the blame on meIf I don't see a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree

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TIE A YELLOW RIBBON ROUND THE OLD OAK TREE

Bus driver please look for me'Cause I couldn't bear to see what I might seeI'm really still in prison and my love she holds the keyA simple yellow ribbon's what I need to set me freeI wrote and told her please

Oh tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak treeIt's been three long years do you still want meIf I don't see a ribbon round the old oak treeI'll stay on the bus forget about us put the blame on meIf I don't see a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree

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TIE A YELLOW RIBBON ROUND THE OLD OAK TREE

Now the whole damn bus is cheeringAnd I can't believe I seeA hundred yellow ribbons’ round the old oak treeI'm coming home

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II. Home-going of a

different sort

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Questions:

1. What is the name of the movie?

2. Scarlet is anxious to go home.

What does home mean to her?

3. What is her home like now? Does

she prepare herself for this dramatic

change at home?

4. What does home usually associate

your mind with?

The end of “Home-going”.

II. Home-going of a

different sort

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III. Read a poem Returning Home

Approaching the doorhesitantly, warily.I reach for the bell

and push.My arrival announced,serves to feed my fear,of denial and rejection.

I left here silently,when you were not looking.

Slipping away,ghostly.

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Returning Home

It was not until I err'dthat you knew I had left,

and that error was enoughfor most to close the door

forever.At the door now,

waiting for your reply.The threshold of your heart

has never looked so frightening. Am I more afraid

of being turned away,

III. Read a poem

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Returning Home

or of being acceptedand living with my guilt?

Do I fear your loveand your forgiveness?Or my own inability to

let bygones be bygones?Regardless of my fear,

here I am,at the door to your heart,

at the door to my home.

III. Read a poem

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Questions for discussion:

1. Returning home has real power; it

provides real feelings. What are the

real feelings?

2. This poem can be taken in a lot of

ways. What’s your interpretation?

Why do you think so?

The end of “Read a poem”.

III. Read a poem

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