The Canterbury Tales Prologue Outlook for week 9/27 to 10/3

The Knight's Armor

Monday 9/29 The Canterbury Tales:

Finish reading and doing workbook; work on all of the Prologue,

including pages 54, 55, and 56.

Project: Students will produce a poster advertising the Canterbury pilgrimage. They will work in pairs, with one student concentrating on aesthetics and another on writing the language.

• Make it beautiful.
• Make it poster size. (14'' x 11" ) ONLY
• Language should include 2 quotes from the Prologue/Tales.
• Computer based OK.
• 5 grades.
• Due on Wednesday, Oct 8.

Tuesday 9/30 Teacher's work day. Rosh Hashna. Happy Jewish New Year!

Wednesday 10/1 Beowulf film. We meet in auditorium.
Thursday 10/2 Beowulf film. We meet at class.

Friday 10/3 Beowulf film. Senior Luau. Test on the Canterbury Tales Prologue, on Friday, Oct, 10th.

Week of 9/22 to 9/26

Monday-Friday

The Canterbury Tales

Wednesday

9/24

Journal # 7
Open topic
or
Dialogue
or poem

Bring Purple Workbook ALL WEEK

* Week of 9/15 to 9/19 Beowulf-The End

Weekend HOMEWORK
Read all of Beowulf from the workbook and complete it.
Many test questions will be taken from workbook questions.

Sep15
The Battle with Grendel's Mother__Audio
The Battle with Dragon__Audio
The Death of Beowulf__Audio
Sep16
Review
Sep17
Test
Historical Background__ Notes
The Epic and the Epic Hero
Beowulf
Sep18
Journal # 6
Canterbury Tales__ Background

Assignment

Due date 9/23

Write a one page paper response

MLA Format

Topic: Modern Day Pilgrimage
Sep19
Canterbury Tales__Background

* The Epic and The Epic Hero__ Week 9/8 -- 9/12

"The Fairie Queene" by Edmund Spencer,
a Renaissance epic.
http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/fqintro.html
OUTLOOK week 9/8-9/12
Monday
9/8
The Epic__ Notes
Beowulf Purple Workbook
9/9
Beowulf Grammar Handout
Workbook pages 6-10
9/10
Assignment: write a letter to a friend talking
about a modern day monster or hero.
or
Draw one of the scenes from Beowulf
we have read.
or
Write a poem or rap about a hero or monster
Silent Reading (bring Novel to read)
reading Log#2
Workbook
9/11
Beowulf
The Battle with Grendel
Workbook
9/12
Career Day
Everest College
TEST ON TUESDAY
INCLUDES
HISTORICAL BACKGROUD
THE EPIC AND THE EPIC HERO\BEOWULF



This is a link to some definitions on the epic from one of my favorite literary sites on the web
http://www.victorianweb.org/genre/epic2.html