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Today’s Agenda

Today’s Agenda. Go over homework Quiz on Anglo-Norman age & the beginning of Sir Gawain Go over Anglo-Norman age ( PowerPoints ) Share brief notes on William the Conqueror, England, & France Go over key characteristics, themes, passages of Sir Gawain ---------------

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Today’s Agenda

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  1. Today’s Agenda • Go over homework • Quiz on Anglo-Norman age & the beginning of Sir Gawain • Go over Anglo-Norman age (PowerPoints) • Share brief notes on William the Conqueror, England, & France • Go over key characteristics, themes, passages of Sir Gawain --------------- • If time, show images of the Order of the Garter

  2. Homework for next class • Read Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, “The General Prologue” 213-38 • Note: easy-to-read translations are on our class website • Do the Chaucer Reading Response Question • Prepare your brief group activity (see next slide) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- • Think about the Chaucer reading questions posted online • They’re under “course documents” on the “The Middle English Period” page. • There will be a Quiz next class • The answers to half the questions are on pages 213-218. • The answers to the other half come from pages 218-38 in the story. They are related to memorable details; focus on these characters: the Knight, Squire, Nun (Prioress), the Monk, the Friar, the Wife of Bath, the Parson, and the Pardoner.

  3. Group Activity Today, everyone will be given a group number. Next class groups will meet, prepared with answers to these basic questions: 1. In your own words, briefly describe the character (s) you were assigned. 2. Point to some quotes from the text to support your overall assessment of the character (s). 3. Explain whether or not the text implies there is some flaw in the character (s). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Group 1: the Knight & the Squire (NA 219-21, lines 43-100) Group 2: the Nun (Prioress) (NA 221-22, lines 118-162) Group 3: the Monk (NA 222-23, lines 165-207) Group 4: the Friar (NA 223-225, lines 208-71) Group 5: the Wife of Bath (NA 229-30, lines 447-78) Group 6: the Parson (NA 230-31, lines 479-530) Group 7: the Pardoner (NA 234-35, lines 671-716)

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