HW for Tuesday 9/29

Read The Wife of Bath's Tale, pp 177-190 and complete the following for discussion in class tomorrow:

1. Quickwrite on p. 177
2. Question #1 on p. 188
3. Question #8 on p. 188
4. Question #9 on p. 188
5. The Practice exercise on p. 190

Schedule through Monday 9/28

Wednesday 9/23 - Begin Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
HW: finish Prologue and answer ?s 3, 4, 6 & 7 on p. 165

Thursday 9/24 - Discuss Prologue
HW: The Pardoner's Tale

Friday 9/25 - AP Prompt Essay (9pts.)
HW: The Pardoner's Tale and vocab...CPS Quiz Monday!

Homework for Wednesday 9/24

Read all of the introductory material on Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales (pp 135-141). We will read The Prologue in class tomorrow.

HW for Tuesday 9/22

Read pp 130-134 and post answers to questions 4-7 on p. 133. Make sure you bring your book to class tomorrow!

HW for Friday 9/18

Read Political and Social Milestones (pp 114-115) and the introductory essay The Middle Ages (pp 116-119). As you read, identify at least seven words that your are not sure you know. Re-write the sentence in which they appear in your vocabular notebook book, and define the work in context as best you can. We will go over your words in class tomorrow.

PS - I just discovered that there is a 10-question quiz over this essay on the resource CD that I can open and run using the CPS software...just a little hint!

Things to know for Wednesday 9/16

1. Liverpool plays in the first round of the group stage of the Champions League at 2:45 on FSC...oh, I guess that's not important for class!

2. The definitions of all 20 vocab words.
3. Basic story-line, themes, and literary characteristics of Beowulf.
4. Main points made in Life in 999 and The Fury of the Northmen.
5. Basic bio of the Venerable Bede.
6. Similarites and differences among the three poems (Seafarer, Wife's Lament, Patrick Spens).

HW for Thursday 9/10

Read The Wife's Lament and answer the Response and Analysis question on p. 93. Post your response (which should be written in complete sentences!) to #4.

Homework for Wednesday 9/8

Read The Seafarer, pp 87-91, and answer the six Response and Analysis questions on p. 91.

HW for Thursday 9/3

Read "The Final Battle" from Beowulf (pp 43-48) and "The Fury of the Northmen (p. 49). In your notebook, answer the 9 reading questions that appear in the margins of the passage from Beowulf, and make an oultine of the article about the Vikings. If we happen to have a CPS quiz over this assignment tomorrow (hint, hint!), you may use these "notes" if you have them.