Next reading assignment: You may remember the BBC animation version of "The Nun's Priest's Tale" -- it's the one about Chanticleer the rooster, who gets captured by a wily fox. This is the reading assignment for Tuesday. As usual, a SIFT worksheet on the tale is due at the beginning of class.

An upcoming date to remember: November 15
All media for your Short Story Video Encapsulations are due on November 15. Make sure you have all video and sould/volume issues resolved before you turn in the media. We will view the projects and Discuss them in the following class.

(Hey, be sure to check out the previous post below on Word of the Week and Allusion of the Week.)

IRP Assignments for A2 class -- due December 18:
Rieger: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Josephson: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Paz: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Naber: Dracula by Bram Stoker
Bruggemann: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Hanna: 1984 by George Orwell
Worobetz: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Verrilli: The Trial by Franz Kafka
Abeln: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Williams: Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Zimmerman: The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Asgian: Mutiny on the Bounty (1932) by Charles Norhoff and James Norman Hall
Schlueter: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Hoderlein: The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
Schumacher: The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
Smallwood: The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Bruns: Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
Orkwis: The House on the Strand by Daphne DuMaurier
Griffiths: Empire in the Sun by J.G. Ballard
Wick: Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
Voss: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Myers: Atonement by Ian McEwan
Pappalardo: The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

IRP Assignments for A3 Class -- due Dec. 20
Rumsey: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Kunkel: A Passage to India by E.M. Forester
Reed: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Strotman: Dracula by Bram Stoker
Kincaid: 1984 by George Orwell
Mills: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Nymberg: Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Greve: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Shaffer: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Shade: The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
Wheat: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Bugada: Beowulf by the guy who wrote Beowulf
Himes: Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
King: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
McCreary: Empire of the Sun  by J.G. Ballard

Quarter 2 - Class 6

On Friday you will be taking The Canterbury Tales preliminary test, which includes an in-class essay with prompts to choose from The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Pardoner's Tale, and The Man of Law's Tale.

    Download: Canterbury Tales -- Preliminary Exam Study Guide

In order to prepare for the in-class essay, you will be completing an in-class theme and thesis worksheet. Read the directions. Dropbox at end of class.

    Download: Canterbury Tales -- Theme & Thesis Worksheet

Due Friday:
1. Your 3x5 notecard indicating your top three choices for the Independent Reading Project.
2. LRJ #3: The Repurcussions of Conversion

We're now beginning our unit on The Canterbury Tales. We'll be reading the "General Prologue" and five of the tales -- as listed on the "Reading List" section of the website.

For Monday, your assignment is to read my introduction and  The General Prologue and to complete the pilgrim data sheet, which must be drop-boxxed before the beginning of class on Monday.

You will have a quiz over the material in my introduction download and the General Prologue. Be sure to know the various medieval genres as defined in the introduction. Each tale belongs to a specific medieval genre, and we'll be talking much about this during this unit.

Download: Introduction to the Caterbury Tales
Download: Pilgrim data sheet

As a part of our introduction to The Canterbury Tales, we'll be watching Becket. Your LRJ assignment for Becket (see download below) includes reading an article entitled "How to Watch a Movie" and a written movie review. See the assignment for detailed specifics. 

    Download: Becket LRJ assignment

For next Wednesday: In addition to writing the LRJ entry, you will each have three minutes (no more!) to persuade the class that the movie you wrote about is 1) an excellent movie, 2) they'd enjoy watching it, and 3) the movie they will want to vote for to see sometime later in the year. Again, see the assignment sheet for full details. Cheers!