Daily Archives: February 3, 2015

2/3/2015 – B

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

pastoral

provincial

We then watched the opening scene from Beauty and the Beast and compared/contrasted it with Beauty and the Beat, by Todrick Hall. We also talked a little about caricatures and whether or not the video was racist.

B&B

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

Here is poem 1.

Passionate Shepherd

I woo’d Louis with promises of love and nature. He volunteered!

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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:

nymph

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:

step 2

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

step 3

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

step 4

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

2/3/2015 – A

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We read Unferth’s challenge and watched Strindberg and Helium cartoons. You can watch these cartoons in BB – under the Foil Folder in Beowulf. Helium is Stringberg’s foil – he is so happy and cheerful that he makes Strindberg seem even more depressed.
I *did* forget to show the epic rap battle today, so Daniel is helping me out and reminding me to show it tomorrow.

Instructions for the Foil Flip Doll:

Cut the dude and the two bibs out.

Put the main character on the front flap and write a really good description of him or her.

Do the same with the second character.

On the last flap, put a definition of  foil and explain why these two are foils.

____ is so ____ that he makes ___ seem even more ___.

I have a huge pile of examples that former students have done in case you get *really* stuck, but try to think of your own.