1. Have the students say good-bye to the current year before New Year’s Day.;

2. Prepare a handout with the following or similar prompts:

If last year were a person, it would be …
If last year were a car, it would be …
If last year were a drink, it would taste like …
If last year were music, it would sound like …
If last year were an animal, it would be …
If last year were a piece of clothing, it would be …
If last year were a kind of weather, it would be …
If last year were a color, it would be …

3. Ask students to write a poem about the year that is ending.

This lesson is from the WritersCorps book “Jump Write In!”