1 / 3

Today’s Agenda

Today’s Agenda. Return Quiz & Go over homework Quiz on Chaucer Go over some key passages of Sir Gawain Begin group activity on Chaucer If time , go over the intro & conclusion to “The General Prologue” Listen to a reading in Middle English. Homework for next class.

moeshe
Download Presentation

Today’s Agenda

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Today’s Agenda • Return Quiz & Go over homework • Quiz on Chaucer • Go over some key passages of Sir Gawain • Begin group activity on Chaucer • If time, go over the intro & conclusion to “The General Prologue” • Listen to a reading in Middle English

  2. Homework for next class • Read Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” 256-75 • Note: easy-to-read translations are on our class website • Read the brief handout on the Wife of Bath and medieval women --------------------------------------------------------------------------- • Think about the Chaucer reading questions posted online • They’re under “course documents” on the “The Middle English Period” page. • Next class there will be two student presentations  • Essay #1 is due next Wednesday

  3. Group Activity Today, everyone will be given a group number. Next class groups will meet, prepared with answers to these basic questions: 1. In your own words, briefly describe the character (s) you were assigned. 2. Point to some quotes from the text to support your overall assessment of the character (s). 3. Explain whether or not the text implies there is some flaw in the character (s). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Group 1: the Knight & the Squire (NA 219-21, lines 43-100) Group 2: the Nun (Prioress) (NA 221-22, lines 118-162) Group 3: the Monk (NA 222-23, lines 165-207) Group 4: the Friar (NA 223-225, lines 208-71) Group 5: the Wife of Bath (NA 229-30, lines 447-78) Group 6: the Parson (NA 230-31, lines 479-530) Group 7: the Pardoner (NA 234-35, lines 671-716)

More Related