Hi guys, I'm back with another Finchel story because you know "Finchel are totally gonna do it!" *FANGIRLSQUEE!* So, yeah! I hope you guys enjoy and I live off of reviews so if you guys have a moment then that would be delightful. Now, that I am finished my other story "Letters of Hurt" I am going to throw myself into this one! ENJOY! Oh and btw, this is another from Finn's point of view. That dude is easy to write about.
Songs of Innocence and Experience
"Okay, guys. You really need to get your act together! I've been told at least half of you are flunking English?" Mr Schue said to us. I could tell it was partly aimed at me, but seriously who cares about someone called Blake or something like that.
"Mr Schue, if you don't mind, I have an idea," a voice said from the doorway. I looked up and Miss Thomson was at the door. She was our English teacher and apart from the fact that she was flunking half of us she actually was quite a cool teacher. She reminded me of Rachel actually, just an older version.
Mr Schue and Miss Thomson spoke for a while and then came to face the Glee Club. "Okay, so we have decided a way that you guys can get your grades up and try and enjoy the work of William Blake as well. Your project for Glee Club for the next few weeks is to write songs and perform songs based around Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience," Miss Thomson stated.
"Exactly guys, and so you do a good job Miss Thomson will be staying to help you all out. I want you to pair up and work on this together. If you do a good job then it means that your grades go up and we can have a bit of fun with this too and you never know, we may get a number from sectionals out of this. Something Educational and fun," Mr Schue said smiling at us all. Miss Thomson giggling at the idea.
Rachel's hand went up straight away. "So, for this project in pairs how is it going to work? And do we get to decide on the poems we do or do we work on a variety of them? I personally like the majority of them," she stated. I looked at her and she was beaming. Of course Rachel liked this plan. She liked anything to do with music and that was educational.
"Good question Rachel," Miss Thomson said with a smile. It was clear that Rachel was one of Miss Thomson's favourites, "What you guys will do is, one of you will be Innocence and one will be Experience as each of the poems are linked. So you will stay like that the whole way through the project. Like an example is "The Lamb" and one is "The Tyger" they are opposites so for example, Rachel you would work on "The Lamb" if you were Innocence and Finn, you would work on "The Tyger" if you were experience and try and portray what Blake was feeling in your songs and make it into a duet, comprehend?" Miss Thomson explained.
I nodded. This would be interesting. English may slowly be becoming one of my favourite classes if we got assignments like this. It would surely make it easier to understand.
"So, partners. I'm going to let you decide your partners but remember you have to work hard on this," Mr Schue said.
"And, if you do this to a high standard I will mark this as your final grade so that means no English exams at the end of the year," Miss Thomson said with a smirk on her face, high fiving Mr Schue. Miss Thomson smiled at everyone.
"Wow, you are pure genius," Mr Schue said to Miss Thomson who just shrugged.
I walked up to Rachel and smiled wrapping my arms around her, "Partner?" I asked smiling gently at her.
"Of course," she said pecking my lips. I was going to go home after this and actually read the Romanticism book that we had been given at the start of term.
"Okay guys, you know where my office is if you need any help outside of Glee. Mr Schue has copies of the books for all those of you who misplaced it," she said looking straight at Puck, "and I will be here for every Glee practice from now until the end of the deadline. The first performance I would like one of you to do is on Friday if that is okay with you guys?"
We all nodded and she walked out of the room, then turned around and added, "Oh, and guys! You make a good job of this and I'll get my friend from a film company to come in and make a video of it, for you and for my future English classes. Can be used to help you get into College or put on your CVs." And with that she left the room to a stunned class and Mr Schue.
Puck made some sort of wolf-whistling noise and I turned around and smirked at him before turning back to Rachel.
Miss Thomson was certainly a good motivator and I couldn't wait to start this project, especially since I would get an extra grade at the end of this. I could just imagine my mom's face if she found out I got an A in English and it may just be enough to help me get into a College in New York with Rachel.
There was literally no downside to this assignment.
So guys, what do you think? I am studying Romanticism at the moment and as soon as my lecturer started speaking about this I had an idea for this fic. Haha. So I am technically studying whilst writing this. Everyone wins!
Hope you enjoyed.
