A teacher remembers her classroom as it used to be before the pandemic as she prepares for a new year of unknowns. Brieanne R. Lucy reflects how before COVID-19 and schools were closed, students in her English class would stand in a circle and read their first thoughts aloud. Students would showcase their command of repetition for effect, sensory details, fresh and surprising similes and metaphors, symbols, snapshots of moments, present tense and second person. Now that classes are taught virtually, she wonders how she will engage her students in this exercise.