TASK 1 Using the post-it note on your table, write down one word that describes your initial feelings about this poem. Stick it on the whiteboard.

TASK 2 With your talking partner, you have 3 minutes to discuss and create a response to the question: ‘Why does it make you feel like this?’ Write your response on your mini-whiteboard

TASK 3 As a group, think about and discuss the possibilities behind the poem: What gender might the author be? Where might they be from? Why might they have come here? Write your ideas on the sheet. Don’t forget you need a scribe & a spokesperson! (You have 5 minutes)

Imagine that person has moved. What does the poem tell us about the attitudes of the people in his/her new community?

TASK 4 As a group, discuss and respond to this question (3 mins): ‘Why might the people in that community feel that way about the person?’

TASK 5 Using the sugar paper on your table, write down any ideas you have as a group responding to the question: ‘What could be done to change the way people think?’ (5 mins)

WHERE IS THIS PLACE?

REFLECTION

Empathy – to ‘stand’ in someone else's shoes.