We then watched the opening scene from Beauty and the Beast and compared/contrasted it with Beauty and the Beat, by Todrick Hall.

Then, we talked about the word pastoral and the related words naive, country, and provincial.

We then read and annotate the Passionate Shepherd and The Nymph’s Reply.

Here is poem 1.

We had a few students who I woo’d with promises of love and nature.

Walter Raleigh read that poem and thought it was ridiculous. Kinda like I thought when I first heard Bruno Mars’ “Grenade.” So he wrote a response:

Then, we partnered up with a buddy to do the Persuasion Partner Pre-Writing (Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4).

Here is my example that I did:

Here are my ideas for what a mother might say to a teacher to try and convince her/him to pass her failing child:

Here are my ideas as to how the teacher might respond to the parent:

 

Try to get as many ideas as possible so that writing the poem tomorrow will be easy!