2. BTLEW Lesson 2 – Going Home Part One ENTER

3. BTLEW Lesson 2 – Going Home Warm-up I. Enjoy a song version of the text Enjoy a song version of the text II. Home-going of a different sort Home-going of a different sort III.Read a poem—Returning Home Read a poem—Returning Home

4. BTLEW TIE A YELLOW RIBBON ROUND THE OLD OAK TREE I'm coming home I've done my time Now I've got to know what is and isn't mine If you received my letter telling you I'd soon be free Then you'll know just what to do if you still want me If you still want me Oh tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree It's been three long years do you still want me If I don't see a ribbon round the old oak tree I'll stay on the bus forget about us put the blame on me If I don't see a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree

5. BTLEW 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 see I'm really still in prison and my love she holds the key A simple yellow ribbon's what I need to set me free I wrote and told her please Oh tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree It's been three long years do you still want me If I don't see a ribbon round the old oak tree I'll stay on the bus forget about us put the blame on me If I don't see a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree

6. BTLEW TIE A YELLOW RIBBON ROUND THE OLD OAK TREE Now the whole damn bus is cheering And I can't believe I see A hundred yellow ribbons’ round the old oak tree I'm coming home

7. BTLEW Lesson 2 – Going Home II. Home -going of a different sort To be continued on the next page.

8. BTLEW Lesson 2 – Going Home 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

9. BTLEW Lesson 2 – Going Home III. Read a poem Returning Home Approaching the door hesitantly, 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. To be continued on the next page.

10. BTLEW Lesson 2 – Going Home To be continued on the next page. Returning Home It was not until I err'd that you knew I had left, and that error was enough for 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

11. BTLEW Lesson 2 – Going Home Returning Home or of being accepted and living with my guilt? Do I fear your love and 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 To be continued on the next page.

12. BTLEW Lesson 2 – Going Home 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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