Question for teaching types from my podcast crush SavidgeReads:

she needs a piece of fiction, it doesn’t have to be massively long, that persuades, in a paragraph or two, another character to do something.

It initially sounds really obvious, and I nearly stated as much on the phone, until I thought about it and was stuck. You see all my examples seemed to be unreliable narrators persuading me they were telling the truth... which takes a whole book. Mum needs some short examples, the characters can be persuading good or bad things from the other, to discuss with the children she teaches.

Several scenes from Anne of Green Gables come to mind -- the one where Anne and Diana swear to be friends, and the one where Jane (I think? Or was it Ruby?) dares Anne to walk along the roof.

Tom Sawyer getting out of whitewashing the fence?

How old are the students? She could either use Rochester persuading Jane to marry him, or from A Little Princess, the scene where Sara convinces Lottie to stop throwing a tantrum.

I think the equivalent of early high school. They're in England. As am I currently (in spirit anyway--on a conference call with Brits).

Too bad Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller aren't fiction. The spelling of the "w-a-t-e-r" scene would be perfect.

One day I will read Anne of Green Gables and A Little Princess. I love the Tom Sawyer idea. From what I know of his mum, she may too.

You've never read A Little Princess?! ::faints::

What about The Secret Garden?

What about The Secret Garden?

Um, no. Here's my best explanation as to why: [link]

Oh, I read that post. And then forgot I did. Sorry!

I think I remember one of the books you have pictured there, Christina Katerina and The Box. If not, I remember something a lot like it.