European Studies: Fishbowl

Prepare answers to the fishbowl questions that would make sense for your character. If you need to reread Chaucer's description of your character in the prologue, use the General Prologue Link to the right. Be sure to base your answers in what we have learned in class and in the text. Fishbowl is Monday.

Middle Ages Exam is Tuesday
What will be on the test?

Marie de France: dates, what she wrote, what we know about her, language she wrote in
Medieval genres, especially the lai
Courtly love and chivalry
Bisclavret: plot, symbolism, message
Chevrefoil: plot, symbolism, message
Expository paragraph: how to write
Chaucer: dates, language he wrote in, his social class, why he is important
Canterbury tales: Language it was written in, when in the Middle Ages it was written, organization of tales, premise of story: who is traveling, where are they traveling, why are they traveling, what game will they play while traveling?
Thomas a Beckett: know why he is significant
Wife of Bath’s tale: plot, main ideas or themes, message
CT Characters: how did they fit into the social system, what did Chaucer think of them, what critique might Chaucer have been making about medieval society through his depiction of these characters

Vocabulary: vernacular, frame story, satire

American Studies: Exam Monday

Fill out your Conversational Round Table. You need both ideas and QUOTES to support your ideas. Bring it to class on Monday. You will need it for your test, and you will turn it in with your test.
Unit 1 Exam
Be familiar with all the authors and writings we have discussed this first unit, as well as Calvinist Doctrine and Rationalism/Deism. The exam will include a multiple choice section, a short critical reading and essay, and a dialogue you will write based on your Conversational Round Table.

Homework Packet and Journal are also due Monday.

European Studies

Your Canterbury Tales group work on your character is due tomorrow. You will have the first 15 minutes of class tomorrow to finish preparing your poster.

What's Coming Up:
Friday, 9/23: Canterbury Tales group work due
Monday, 9/26:Canterbury Tales Fishbowl
Tuesday, 9/27: Middle Ages Exam
Wednesday, 9/28: Vocab Quiz
Thursday: Begin Sonnets!

American Studies

What's Coming Up
Friday 9/23: Prepare for Unit Exam
Monday9/26: Unit 1 Exam
Tuesday 9/27: Begin study of Romanticism and Transcendentalism
Friday 9/30: Vocab Test #1
Monday 10/3: First draft of Personal Essay due in class for peer editing

American Lit: "Sinners in the Hands"

"Personal Narrative" critical reading was stamped and discussed. We then listened to "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" and compared the two. You selected 5 images from the sermon to add to your list of Puritan images in your journal; you then categorized the images in 3 categories, Nature, the Divine, and the Individual.
Homework: In Journal: 1 page total
1) How would you summarize what the Puritans were all about on the basis of all we've read and learned about them (poetry, "city on a hill" speech, "Personal Narrative," "Sinners," and doctrine notes.)
2) Contrast your chart of Puritan images with the Native American chart. Compare the world views of the Puritans and the Native Americans.
3) Predict what would happen if a group of modern day Americans were subjected to the ideals and code of behavior of the Puritans.

vocabulary
Print your first vocab lesson from Mrs. Heldt's website: Alvey's Vocab. #1, by Thursday.

European Lit: 9/19

Journal entry was stamped and coats of arms collected.
Please look at your peer reviews on your paragraph at turnitin.com...you will be writing and submitting a revision of your paragraph soon.
Today: Discussion of Wife of Bath's Tale; We will also begin the General Prologue today.