1. Welcome: Take 5 minutes and…
Write a paragraph to answer the following questions: Describe something you think or feel is beautiful. It might be a concept, a person, an object, a place, a piece of music, or even a type of food. Is the experience of beauty important to you?

2. Other voices… ~Kahlil Gibran, Beauty makes the heart break.
We live only to discover beauty All else is a form of waiting.
~Kahlil Gibran,
Lebanese American Poet, Theologian, Philosopher
Beauty makes the heart break.
~Sara Teasdale
American Lyrical Poet

3. Beauty suspends the desire
to be elsewhere.
~Ken Weber in The Eye of the Spirit

4. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
~Francis Bacon from “Of Beauty” English author, courtier, & philosopher ( )

5. “The Birth-mark” March 1843 Nathanial Hawthorne

6. Discussion What do you remember from “The Birthmark?”
Resonance / Resistance
What question does the text ask?
What did I learn about writing?
How did rhetorical appeals operate? (use handout)
Ethos
Pathos
Logos

7. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
Pied Beauty
    Glory be to God for dappled things—         For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;             For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;     Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;         Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;             And áll trades, their gear and tackle and trim.
    All things counter, original, spáre, strange;         Whatever is fickle, frecklèd (who knows how?)             With swíft, slów; sweet, sóur; adázzle, dím;     He fathers-forth whose beauty is pást change:
                                                Práise hím.  

8. Discussion Rhetorical Appeals in first two paragraphs of
The Wonderful Mistake
Ethos: How does Thomas make himself trustworthy?
Pathos: How does Thomas entrap our emotions?
Logos: How does Thomas engage our reasoning / logic?

9. Define a major or career: What sorts of careers have the texts tried to define?