Engl 12 9/12/22

Mon, Sep 12, 2022

  • Essay due at 11:59 pm

  • Discuss Elegies "The Seafarer" and "The Wife's Lament"

  • Read literary connection: Riddles in Greek Mythology

  • In class reading Anglo-Saxons Riddles -g 72-76 and questions


Objectives

  • read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate two elegies that express the personal thoughts and feelings of the speakers

  • compare and contrast the moods and elements of elegy in the two poems

  • exhibit and understand mood and elegy

  • understand how the culture of the Anglo-Saxon Period influenced these poems and riddles

  • use context clues to understand difficult concepts

  • address critical thinking questions

Tue, Sep 13, 2022

  • Unit 1 Quiz - Anglo Saxon Period

  • Introduction to Unit 2: The Medieval Period

  • review timeline pg 92-93

  • Reading and discussion of Historical Background pgs 94-98

  • Take notes over Historical Background

Wed, Sep 14, 2022

  • Review background of Part 1 Songs and Tales pg 99-100.

Assignment: "Bonny Barbara Allan," "Get Up and Bar the Door," "Lord Randall"

  • Build Background (BB) pg 101

  • Journal writing - Reader's Context pg 101

  • Read pg 102-103 "Bonny Barbara Allen" - Reflect on Mirrors and Windows (M&W)

  • Read pg 104-105 "Get Up and Bar the Door" Reflect on M&W

  • Read pg 106 "Lord Randall" Reflect on M&W

  • Complete Refer and Reason questions 1-5 pg 110

Assignment: (College Students Only) Writing Options, Creative Writing page 110

Minimum five stanzas; must include dialogue to show a relationship between characters

Post to GC Stream by Thu, Sep 15 by midnight

Respond to classmates No later than Sun, Sep 18, at 11:59 pm

Objectives: After studying this lesson, student's will be able to

  • read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate three popular English ballads.

  • analyze and understand rhyme scheme and repetition.

  • be able to write a ballad, either serious or humorous, using four- line stanzas and abcb rhyme scheme.

Thu, Sep 15, 2022

  • Discuss Ballads Bonny Barbara Allan, Get Up and Bar the Door, Lord Randall.

  • Get up and Bar the Door -- For Fun

  • Read in class the Author Focus: Geoffrey Chaucer page 112

  • "The Prologue" from The Canterbury Tales A Frame Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer

Assignment::

  • Read and discuss Build Background, Cultural Context and Set Purpose pg 113

  • Assign journal writing - Reader's Context pg 113

  • Review literary terms characterization and irony

  • Listen and follow along to The Prologue lines 1-42

  • Read pgs 114-132 from "The Prologue" (meaning introduction) - Write a very brief description of selected pilgrims that the narrator describes. Read the Knight (115), Squire (117), Yeoman (117), Nun (117), Monk (119),Friar (119), Oxford Cleric (121), Worthy Woman of Bath(124), the Parson (125), Miller(126), Summoner (128) and Pardoner (129) and finally the Host to the end of the piece (131-132).

  • Upon completion choose your favorites and your least favorites. Reflect on M&W pg 132

  • Complete Refer and Reason questions 1-5 pg 133

Objectives After studying this lesson, students will be able to

  • read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate the frame tale to a famous collection of stories

  • understand the influence of the Medieval Period on this literature.

  • analyze and understand characterization and irony

Fri, Sep 16, 2022

  • Purple Day - Student Intervention. If you have an F in my class you must come in to makeup work in the morning.