WEEK 6

GOOD MORNING!

There will be NO POST next week (10/27), which means you can use next week as a catch-up week. Yes, you have TWO weeks to get this week's work done. 

Here's your work:

1.  CHIVALRY ESSAY, FIRST DRAFT: Both Chaucer and Mallory celebrate certain medieval qualities and ideals that are embodied in the term CHIVALRY. Drawing from the four pieces we've read (3 from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, 1 from Mallory), demonstrate in a well-argued essay how the literature of the time conveys these ideals.      

800 words minimum.

Include at least 6 incorporated quotes (citations are not necessary).

Organization will be up to you, but it should make logical sense of the material you need to cover:  2 authors, 4 pieces of literature, a half dozen or so traits. I'm not going to prescribe how to organize it. If you're not sure of how to do this, propose to me an outline and we can talk it over.

2. Read the unit intro on p.107-111

3. Read pages 132-135

4. Answer the Recalling and Interpreting questions for those five sonnets (p.138)

5.  LBGB work...

Teach me how to use these:

a. who / whom

b. literally

c. (one of your choice)

HAVE A GREAT TWO WEEKS!

WEEK 5

GOOD MORNING.

Here's your work for this week:

1. Revise your folk ballad if necessary. Please highlight those revised lines for me. If you needed to start from scratch, just repost the new version above the old like you would an essay.

2. Do frontier vocab from your own reading. Slight change this time: do the regular steps for 3 new words. Then, for two previous words from your old frontier vocab, find them being used in some other context (an internet search would be easiest, but you can find them anywhere). Write out the context (the sentence it was used in or thereabouts) and then imitate the usage in a sentence of your own. So for these two review words you'll do everything except guess and provide the definition (you've done those things already). Label them "old words" so I know what I'm looking at. 

3. Read "Wife of Bath's Tale" and "Pardoner's Tale" (p.80-96); Answer the Interpreting questions on .89 and .96. 

4. warm-up: How does Chaucer deal with chivalry? (You might re-read the section on p.47.) His use of negative examples are valid ways also (e.g. the three rioters were clearly examples of un-chivalrous behavior and its consequences; also, the rioters were NOT brave, they were drunk. They can only be examples of what happens when one is un-chivalrous). 100+ words.

5. Read the Sir Thomas Malory bio and the excerpt from Le Morte d'Arthur (p.98-102).

6. For each of the following chivalrous traits find one quote from one of our medieval readings and provide a short explanation. Include at least one from each of the readings (there were three Chaucer readings and one Mallory reading).

1. Honorable
2. Courteous
3. Generous
4. Brave
5. Skillful in battle
6. Respectful to women
7. Helpful to the weak

Examples should refer to male characters only. Women in medieval times were the beneficiaries of chivalry, not the benefactors.


7.  LBGB. Read chapter 3 this week and teach me how to use these: 

        a. affect / effect

        b. compose / comprise

        c. farther / further

        d. i.e. / e.g.

        e. its / it's

Next week we'll write an essay on — you guessed it — Chivalry.


HAVE A GREAT WEEK!