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!

For the next couple of weeks we'll be studying Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. So, to get started, have a look through the Sir Gawain section of the website. If you do not have your own copy of Burton Raffel's translation, you will use the PDF copy of the book, which is divided into two sections:

Part I: (Fits 1 and 2) in PDF -- for Thursday
Part II: (Fits 3 and 4) in PDF -- for next Monday

The following are the other downloads you'll need this week:

1. Introduction to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2. Sir Gawain Literary Response Journal (LRJ) prompts

For Thursday
Read Part I: (Fits 1 and 2) for Quiz
Complete LRJ prompt #1: Man of Moeller Code of Conduct

Upcoming PSAT
In preparation for the upcoming PSAT in mid-October, we'll be reviewing several of the English sections so that you can brush up on grammar, word usage, punctuation, and sentence structure.

You may wish to check out the Resources section of this website, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and explore the SAT Preparation links. The PSAT is very, very similar to the SAT.