Happy New Year, Panthers! 🐾

Welcome to 1302, Comp and Rhetoric II.

Today, the BDTH involved creating a New Year’s Intention.

We talked a little about New Year’s tradition (grapes, cabbage, black eyed peas, jumping, fireworks, and money in cakes are some of the interesting things that I can remember at the end of the day).

We used those traditions to talk about the catharsis of purging, cleaning, and getting ready for the new year by reading two poems: “Rain, New Year’s Eve” by Maggie Smith and “Burning the Old Year” by Naomi Shahib Nye.

Then, for each of the two poems, we did four squares over them on a sheet of paper.

And lastly, we listed out what we want to TAKE into the new year and what we want to LEAVE. I collected all of the leave it baggage and plan on burning them this weekend in my firepit.

I am not going to be here on Monday because I have a podiatrist appointment, so I’ll be leaving some kind of Gimkit as an assignment for you background on Kafka’s Metamorphosis.