Period 5 Independent Reading Assignment & PPt Model
Middle Ages Research Nov 15-20Social Satire: Models from Medieval Literature Modern Pilgrim--The Writer
Model for Modern Chaucer Character Building:
The Writer A writer traveled with us clothed in stark, discreet black, Relieved with fine silver jewelry that rustled as she sat back Into a corner to watch us speak as she listened To our introductions with her eyes fairly glistening. She asked the spellings for each foreign name, She smiled a bit smugly, loathe to give up her game. She agree to visit the cathedral to offer her prayer. Then she’d be off to see an editor in his office there. She warned us not to be unduly indiscreet, For our stories were her very bread and meat, Devouring the foibles of our lives laid bare at the table, Into the banquet of her stories, each turned into fables. Her words were said lightly, but she was rapt by each tale, As the evening grew long and fantastic stories regaled Our pasts. She jotted notes and questioned us, leading, To some secret detail, gripe, or old excuse pleading. She laughed at each joke and nodded over each surprise ending, Chuckled and calculated how many pages she’d be sending. |
Class Reading and Discussion of Chaucer:
Unit Assignments for Journey with Chaucer:
Part 1--Due December 20 with Wife of Bath and Miller added. Analyze all of Chaucer’s characters we've read using the Vice/Virtue Continuum. Be sure to read all footnotes, review the class presentations, and cite line numbers in your analysis. The assignment and Analysis of the Sailor below. Part 2--The Pardoner--December 7-8, 2018 Read “The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale.” Assignment link to be added. Part 3--Career Research and the Modern Pilgrim Assignment A. Complete a career and education plan using the U.S. Department of Labor's website --O*NET Online. Explore your interests, skills and education preferences as well as career prospects, salary and market demand. ( If you use the linked form, SAVE AS your name and ONET. ) B. Choose a career path from your O*NET Online search and create a character using character attributes like Chaucer did. Remember to add details of dress, mannerisms, possessions, vices and virtues. Use 20-30 lines of rhymed couplets if possible and ten to fifteen syllables per line. C. Create a visual for this character. These can be created through PowerPoint, posters, Glogster, 3-D models using creative materials (no dolls, Legos, etc), paintings, film/video or songs, poetry or prose. All projects will be scored for grammar, neatness, and creativity. D. Flash Fiction Challenge--Choose a vice or virtue as a theme and then tell a story as your character to make a point about it--100-250 words. Many thanks to writer Bud Scott who visited and read a piece from his flash fiction collection--Dead People from the Attic on December 17th. |
Medieval Literature--
Gawain and the Green Knight
January Class Reading:
Hailed as the first romance novel, Gawain's first quest as a knight of the Round Table challenges his allegiance to chivalry.
Written by the anonymous Pearl Poet, this narrative poem is the archetypal journey of a classic knight on a quest.
Hailed as the first romance novel, Gawain's first quest as a knight of the Round Table challenges his allegiance to chivalry.
Written by the anonymous Pearl Poet, this narrative poem is the archetypal journey of a classic knight on a quest.