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2nd Semester

The Monk

The Wife of Bath

We're off on a Pilgrimage, Old Chap!

Canterbury Cathedral

(Final destination for the pilgrims)

Monday September 15th- Friday September 19th

Due THIS lab day: Full review of ALL Anglo-Saxon material. (Specific stories and history on last week's page) Questions 1-7 about the ballad, Barbara Allen. Please make sure these questions are TYPED! 

In-Class:  Test on Anglo-Saxon Times. This is a unit test and will consist of information from all literature, including Bede, the history of the times, The Seafarer, The Wanderer and the changing English language. 

We will have a quick discussion on Feudalism and the after-effects of having William the Conqueror take over Britain. The BBC version of the Battle of Hastings game is here.

We will begin the reading of and have a discussion about "The Canterbury Tales".

Assignments: Read about Medieval Times on pages 69-79. Be prepared for a test on this material by NEXT lab day.

In class you will be given a Canterbury Tales character. Find this person's description in the book and memorize the first ten lines that describe them. Practice and prepare with proper speech, accent, etc., and be ready to recite this to the class by NEXT lab day. Remember, your work should be memorized. This is a 20-point assignment- one point off per mistake made. PRACTICE! 

Review the following Latin/ Greek roots for a quiz next week:

1. eros......sexual, love (erotic) 

2. eu.....good (euphony)

3. gam/gamy........marriage (monogamy)

4. gen (Hebrew).....creation or beginning (Genesis)

5. gen (Latin)....kind, race, origin (generation)

6. gest....move, carry (gesture)

7. glot/ glos.....language, tongue (glossary)

8. glyph......carving (hieroglyphics)

9. gno.....know (agnostic)

10. gyn......woman, female (misogynist)

 (Why not check out some "different" forms of Chaucer's tales made by students: click here. And here's a version including superheroes.)

NEW: The Simpsons Retold Canterbury Tales

        The "Teachers" Canterbury Tales, (most interesting)

        Spongebob's Pilgrimage to Bikini Bottom

Links: http://colfa.utsa.edu/chaucer/ec28-20.html

         http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng330/chaucermonk.htm

         http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/conf/cs95/papers/stanbury.html

         Feudalism explained

         The Battle of Hastings Game

Information: Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories in a frame story, between 1387 and 1400. It is the story of a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury (England). The pilgrims, who come from all layers of society, tell stories to each other to kill time while they travel to Canterbury.
If we trust the General Prologue, Chaucer intended that each pilgrim should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two tales on the way back. He never finished his enormous project and even the completed tales were not finally revised. Scholars are uncertain about the order of the tales. As the printing press had yet to be invented when Chaucer wrote his works, The Canterbury Tales has been passed down in several handwritten manuscripts.