For class today, I printed the two quatrains and the one-line chorus of "The Other One", by Bob Weir and Bill Kreutzmann (The Grateful Dead, "Anthem of the Sun", 1968), three times and cut them into three sets of nine one-line strips each. I carefully handed out the strips to the 26 students in the class and took the twenty-seventh one for myself. After we all found the other two people who had the same strip, each of the nine groups of three then discussed their lines together. Each group wrote keywords about their work on a space on the blackboard, and we had a rich, fascinating discussion interpreting the song. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 22 April 2026)

A blackboard with a three-by-three grid. Each grid comments on one line from “The Other One”.
Photo by Andrew Shields


Nine groups of three discussing the nine lines of “The Other One”, by The Grateful Dead