Tag Archives: pastoral

4/14/2016

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I’ve added new behaviors to Class Craft today! Hooray!

Also, progress reports came out today, so if you are still missing your Obituary, get that turned in ASAP! I’ve also moved a few things around so that we can finish writing our Carpe Diem: The Bucket List Essay tomorrow. You can thank me by turning your work in. 😉

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

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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 students with promises of Taco Bell, garage livin’, and chasing nutria at Meyer Park. No one took me up on the offer, but Brenden was tempted! Joe broke my grass skirt! Can you believe it!?!?!

(I’m waiting for pictures! I’ll give XP if you share/send pictures of the class models to me!)

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

I normally give people time to work on the Partner Persuasion poem pre-writing, but I want to give you guys a little more time to finish your Carpe Diem essay from yesterday.

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!

11/6/14

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Y’all, I am SO not feeling great today, but I love that you let me teach, so I am giving it my all!

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.

B&B

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

Here is poem 1.

Passionate Shepherd

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

PICTURES GO HERE

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!

4/9/14

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

B&B

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

provincial

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

Here is poem 1.

Passionate Shepherd

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

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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 2Here are my ideas for what a mother might say to a teacher to try and convince her/him to pass her failing child:

step 3Here are my ideas as to how the teacher might respond to the parent:

 

step 4Try to get as many ideas as possible so that writing the poem tomorrow will be easy!

4/9/2013

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We talked about our IDEAL man/woman today in class. TJ was very easy going – he said all his perfect women needed was a face. 🙂 I talked about how after a particularly bad break up with an ex-boyfriend, I wrote a list of 100 things my perfect boyfriend would have. It took me a week or two to write it, and while it was an interesting writing activity, it was realistic. I never expected my husband to match all 100 characteristics.

Then, we read The Passionate Shepherd and took notes.

While we were reading, I dressed people up as the nymph. Isn’t this sweet and romantic?

Then, we read the response – The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd:

Aww. Sad Shepherd.

Lastly, we worked with a buddy to complete the Seduction/Shut Down Pre-Writing in the Pastoral folder.

Tomorrow, we will use this to write TWO poems – one persuasive and one rejection.

My absent students will need to make sure that they either find a partner or have to work by themselves (unless they have a card to partner with Riley!). Adrianna, we have a lot of people in first block who are solo right now. Ben, Ivan said he’s work with you.

IV – 11/9/2012

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Riley gave us the entire class period to work with our partner to write the Partner Poem – There needs to be two poems with six stanzas each and a rhyme scheme of AABB, like The Passionate Shepherd and The Nymph’s Reply.

AAAAA
AAAAA
BBBBBB
BBBBBB

CCCCCC
CCCCCC
DDDDD
DDDDD

EEEEEE
EEEEEE
FFFFFF
FFFFFF

GGGGG
GGGGG
HHHHH
HHHHH

IIIIIIII
IIIIIIII
JJJJJJ
JJJJJJ

KKKKK
KKKKK
LLLLLL
LLLLLL

IV – 11/8/2012

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Did you guys know that Riley hates Bruno Mars’ song Grenade? She does.

She compared it to the poem “The Passionate Shepherd” get the notes from a  classmate.

Then we read “The Nymph’s Reply” – get the notes from a classmate.

We then partnered up and started the Come Hither, Go Away Pre-Writing. When youa re done, show it to Riley so she can give you credit for drafting.

4/4/2012

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The sun has set for us with hard core carpe diem poems – we are moving on to Pastoral poetry – that’s the folder with the world on it. Carpe diem had the sun on the folder; pastoral poetry has the land because it takes places in an idealized countryside setting.

The poems can be saved to OneNote – they are the Pastoral poems file. First, we read The Passionate Shepherd and took notes. Get the notes from a good classmate. How romantic and naive! Note this poem has an AABB rhyme scheme, 6 stanzas, 4 lines per stanza, and 8 syllables per line.

Then we read the response poem: The Nymph’s Reply. This was the shut down – all the things the Shepherd offered the girl were only temporary. She also took the imagey in the first poem and twisted it, making it negative.

Then, we downloaded the the Seduction/Denial file – that’s our pre-writing. Fill out steps 1-4 and then start writing your OWN Seduction/Denial poems.

  • 2 poems.
  • 6 stanzas each.
  • rhyme scheme AABB

If you missed today (Melissa), you are stuck on your own. 🙁 Just get through the first two stanzas and it will get easier.