Block, 10.30 & 31 - WOB


  • 3PO
  • GUM: Review for your quiz
  • Unit 3 Quiz
    • When you finish, twiddle your thumbs or write a sonnet ; ) 
  • "The Pardoner's Tale" - in your groups formed yesterday, finish reading the tale and answering the questions in your paper journal. 
    • When your group is finished, then begin reading and answering the questions to "The Wife of Bath's Tale."
    • We will discuss "The Pardoner's Tale" questions when everyone is finished.
  • "The Wife of Bath's Tale" - in your same group, read and answer the questions at the bottom of the story. Enjoy!
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Wednesday, 10.29 - The Pardoner's Tale

  • 3PO
  • GUM: with a buddy next to you, do the first ten sentences in Exercise 5, Fixing Comma Splices and Fused Sentences.
  • Chaucer's "The Pardoner's Tale"
    • In groups of four, read the selection; then do Journal: The Pardoner's Tale, which you can find on The Canterbury Tales page at the bottom of your reading selection.
HW: Prepare for your quiz on block day. 
  1. Comma splices and fused sentences
  2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and its literary terms
 
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Tuesday, 10.28 - Finish Ye General Prologue


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Seniors in HS Gym
  • 3PO
  • Extended Chapel
    • Seniors are in the HS Gym for "Musical Worship Experiences"
  • GUM: Comma splices and fused sentences: Exercise 4 
    • As usual, in your journal please keep track of your score out of ten (?/10). If you are getting anything below 8/10, please do additional sentences for each exercise, get an explanation, and come in for help (if you're extremely lost). Humble thyself in the sight of your teacher, and he will lift you up.
  • Chaucer: finish Prologue
HW: Quiz on blawke daye
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Monday, 10.27 - Characterizing Chaucer's Characters' Characterization


  • 3PO
  • Chaucer: take notes on each character, asking, "What is Chaucer conveying about the tendencies of each medieval class through his characterization of each particular character?"
    • Unit 3 tab 
    • The Canterbury Tales
    • Prologue
HW: Be preparing for a quiz on block day
  1. Comma splices and fused sentences
  2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and its literary terms

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Block, 10.23 & 24 - Severed Heads? Such a Boar!

Sean Connery as the Green K-nig-git . . . post-game show
  • 3PO
  • GUM: More comma splices and fused sentences: Exercise 2. Keep track of your scores in your journal to track your ability and progress.  Be honest!
 
  • "The Boar's Head Carol" (In Honor of King Arthur's Court and a tradition that goes back to Anglo-Saxon times: celebrate Christmas with the "rarest dish in all the land"!)
    • The boar's head in hand bear I, 
    • Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary. And I pray you, my masters, be merry Quot estis in convivio (Translation: As many as are in the feast)

      CHORUS Caput apri defero (Translation: The boar's head I offer) Reddens laudes Domino (Translation: Giving praises to the Lord)

      The boar's head, as I understand,
      Is the rarest dish in all this land,
      Which thus bedeck'd with a gay garland
      Let us servire cantico. (Translation: Let us serve with a song)
       
      Our steward hath provided this
      In honor of the King of Bliss;
      Which on this day to be served is       In Reginesi atrio. (Translation: In the hall of Queen’s [College, Oxford])
  • The Gawain Game! Let's see which teams win the extra points and which ones lose their heads! 
  • Let's begin Chaucer! (go to the bottom of Unit 3 tab)
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Wednesday, 10.22 - Reflecting on Gawain

  • 3PO
  • In your SGGK groups, please begin to answer the following questions one one piece of paper (Your answers will be due at the end of the period):
    • What is the overall "moral" of this tale? Cite two pieces of textual evidence to support your viewpoint. (Consider the three elements vying for Gawain's loyalty: the code of chivalry, courtly love, and God's Word)
    • Many stories can be seen through the following biblical lenses:  
      • Creation (It's all good!)
      • Fall (It's not all good)
      • Redemption (God's intervening grace)
      • Restoration (It's all good again or better now!).        Do you see SGGK following these biblical contours, these narrative shapes? If so, where would each one be in the narrative? Be prepared to defend your reasoning.
HW: Do the journal on GC (Google Classroom) entitled "Sir Gawain - Personal Reflection"
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Tuesday, 10.21 - The Final Showdown

  • 3PO
  • GUM: Midevil romances' often concern the supernatural—magic, spells, enchantments, fairy trickery—and
    also cortly love and the proprieties of aristocratic courtship, especially the consequences of arranged marriage and adultery.
  • Finish SGGK in groups of four and, if you have time, begin to answer the following question in your journal:
    1. What is the overall "moral" of this tale? Cite two pieces of textual evidence to support your viewpoint. (Consider the three elements vying for Gawain's loyalty: the code of chivalry, courtly love, and God's Word)
HW: Finish read SGGK so that you can contribute to your group's discussion tomorrow
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Monday, 10.20 - To Obey Lover or Lord?

  • 3PO
  • GUM: (copy the following quote and then correct any GUM errors you find):
    • medieval romances, represent a—courtly or chivalric—period of history involving highly developed manners and civility, their standard plot involves a single knight seeking to win a scornful lady's favor by undertaking a dangerous quest?
  • Task 1: Finish reading SGGK in class and continue taking notes on the following questions:
    • How is SGGK a medieval romance; how might it slightly differ from the genre's definition?
    • How does it treat courtly love?
    • How does it treat the code of chivalry?
 HW: None
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Block, 10.16 & 17 - Ga-----waaaaaaaaain!

Awkward Senior Photo (wallet-sized, anyone?)
  • 3PO
  • GUM: In 2-3 sentences, define the first six Lit Terms on your Unit 3 page.
  • Discuss notes
  • Read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SGGK) - available in GC (Google Classroom)
    • A Death-Defying Mission into the wild
    • Take notes while we read and after we read. Consider the following:
      • How is SGGK a medieval romance?
      • How does it treat courtly love?
      • How does it treat the code of chivalry? 
 HW: Finish the first six lit terms assigned above.
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Wednesday, 10.14 - Almost the length of a pop song

  • 3PO
  •  
    PSAT Testing
    Wednesday, October 15, 2014
    All Class Periods Meet Following the PSAT
    PSAT 8:10 - 11:25 195 min
    Break 11:25 - 11:45 20 min
    First 11:50 - 12:10 20 min
    Second 12:15 - 12:35 20 min
    Third 12:40 - 1:00 20 min
    Lunch 1:00 - 1:40 40 min
    Fourth 1:45 - 2:05 20 mn
    Fifth 2:10 - 2:30 20 min
    Sixth 2:35 - 2:55 20 min
    Seventh 3:00 - 3:20 20 min
    Buses leave at 3:30
  • No GUM . . . today we have 20 minutes to read as much of the remaining Middle Ages overview as we can. Don't forget that tomorrow your handwritten notes in your journal are due.
HW: Middle Ages notes
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Extended Chapel Schedule

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Tuesday, 10.14 - The Middle Ages Intro

Extended Chapel Schedule
  • 3PO (our new poem is the one below "Caedmon's Hymn")
  • GUM: Take a look at Unit 3 in the column to the right (or via the tab above) just to get a feel for what we are going to do over the next couple of weeks. Then begin jotting down your new Lit Terms at the bottom of the page.
  • Begin reading Intro to The Middle Ages using Brit Lit - Historical Eras (in Notability or posted in Google Classroom)
HW: Finish reading and taking handwritten notes in your journal on The Middle Ages 
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