For the 3 (or is it 4? or 7??) teachers on my Flist

Next year, have your students compare and contrast the lyrics to "Synchronicity II" by The Police with the poem "The Fall of Rome" by W.H. Auden. There's more going on there than you might at first think; Sting may be a wanksta for the canon, but every now and then he pulls off something genuinely clever.

The bright ones should have a lot of fun, the dim ones get a chance to snicker and say "crotch" and "prostitutes." So everyone wins.