Moon’s Day 9/16: Judging The Pilgrims
EQ: How (and why) did Chaucer explore both sacred and profane in his work?
· Welcome! Gather Chaucer sheets, Rubrics (last week) for Notebooks and Reading Journal, PURPLE BOOK, pen/cil, paper, wits!
· Overview: Notebook, Reading Journal, Canterbury Tales
· Work Your Work!
ELACC12RL-RI2: Analyze two or more themes or central ideas of text
ELACC12RI3: Analyze and explain how individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop
ELACC12RL5: Analyze an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text
ELACC12RL-RI9: Analyze for theme, purpose rhetoric, and how texts treat similar themes or topics
ELACC12RL10: Read and comprehend complex literature independently and proficiently.
Link To Chaucer:
http://www.nexuslearning.net/books/Elements_of_Lit_Course6/Middle_Ages/Prologue2%20p1.htm
BritLitComp Unit One Notebook: The Legacy Of 1066
25 Point Major Grade due Tyr’s Day, September 24
MUST be submitted NEATLY in a BINDER, “more or less” in this order
/5 pts: THIS Unit Notebook Checklist (at front of notebook!)
/10 pts: Syllabus: (Rule Britannia!) and the CLOZE (Rule Britannia!)
/85 pts: Literary Unit
___/4 pts: Cover Sheet: “The Legacy Of 1066” (decorated with map I asked you to draw)
___/3 pts: COMPLETED CLOZE: “BritLit”
___/3 pts: COMPLETED CLOZE: Britain Before 1066
___/25 pts: Beowulf Materials
§ 2 pts: Cotton MS; Beowulf in Saxon (Old English)
§ 3 pts: Excerpts from Beowulf (tr. Seamus Heaney)
§ 10 pts: All questions on Reading Guide COMPLETED
§ 10 pts: Meditations On Beowulf: COMPLETED Notes/Reflections on ANY FOUR:
Strength Leader Hero Monster
Ontology Gender Technology
___/3 pts: COMPLETED CLOZE: 1066
___/2 pts: COMPLETED 1066 Tactical/Linguistic Analysis
___/20 pts: Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales Materials
§ 2 pts: The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue (in Middle English)
§ 3 pts: COMPLETED Reading Guide, lines 1-42
§ 15 pts: COMPLETED Reading Guides/Analyses for ANY FOUR pilgrims:
Knight Prioresse Miller Squire Wife of Bath Summoner Yeoman Parson Pardoner
___/25 pts: Freewrites (2 pts. each – if you submit some with Reading Journal, circle them)
§ “Who Are You?”
§ Meta-analysis of “Who Are You? – color-coding and analyses of analyses
§ Wrestling With Ontology – response to Søren Kierkegaard
§ True Lies – Is the story about Odin, Thor, and Trolls “true” (fiction/nonfiction)?
§ Practice Essay – response to Jaron Lanier, You Are Not A Gadget
§ Ragnarök: What would you do if knew you’d lose and die?
§ The Worst Dirty Word
§ Why We Cuss (4th Block ONLY)
§ Evaluations of ANY FIVE pilgrims –
Knight Prioresse Miller Squire Wife of Bath Summoner Yeoman Parson Pardoner
/100 pts: Notebook Grade
Reading Journals
Keeping a journal of words and thoughts is something writers and scholars have done forever; it helps to grab information and ideas passing through your ears and eyes, and helps you to file them in your mind. For each Unit this semester, you will submit a Reading Journal consisting of an assigned number of quotations and reflections drawn from Unit Reading. This counts for a 25 point Major Grade.
Your journal can take the form of a double-entry journal:
· On the left side or at the top of each entry, quote word for word from the work you are considering, and cite according to MLA Rules. Number each entry.
· On the right side or at the bottom of each entry, write a reflection, at least 100 words, on the passage you quoted. Explain what the passage is “about,” why that passage matters, and “reflect” on it – i.e., give an opinion, or explain how it relates to you. This is graded for thinking, not grammar; don’t just fill up 100 words’ worth of space.
# / Examples: Quotation/Citation / Examples: 100 word reflection1 / She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow ….
– William Shakespeare,
Macbeth V v 20-23 / Here Macbeth has just found out that his wife is dead, and he doesn’t seem to care. Basically he is saying that she was going to die anyway, so why should he care? And it also says she should have died later because he doesn’t have time to deal with it right now. This is especially sad since the couple started out so happy, sharing everything, and now Macbeth has no feeling at all. It reminds me of one time when my little brother wanted to play and I was too busy and told him to go away and he asked me why I didn’t love him anymore.. That was a sad day.
2 / Of course I cannot break through the wall by battering my head against it if I really have not the strength to knock it down, but I am not going to be reconciled to it simply because it is a stone wall and I have not the strength.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes From Underground. New York: Dover
Thrift Editions, 1992, p. 8. / Like Dostoyevsky’s narrator I have a hard time accepting limits. This guy is in prison and will not accept the reasons for it. I have a hard time accepting the reasons for anything that stands between me and what I want, even when I realize that wishes are impossible. I was never quite able to dunk a basketball. I know now that that is unlikely, but I haven’t given up, though realism says I should do so and find a more attainable goal.
Or, you can simply freewrite, integrating the quotation into your text – BUT, in that case, be sure the REFLECTION is 100 words – can’t quote 50 words and only reflect with 50.
Unit One Reading Journal Checklist/Rubric
35 Point Major Grade due Tyr’s Day, September 24
Be sure to attach this checklist to your Reading Journal entries.
Your Unit One Journal needs TWELVE 100-wd reflections on and with quotations from:
· At least ONE: Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death (was a freewrite)
· At least FOUR: Beowulf (Seamus Heaney translation ONLY)
· At least FOUR: Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (Neville Coghill translation ONLY)
· THREE MORE from list above and/or list below – no celebs, movies, etc!
o John Gardner, On Moral Fiction (Odin and the Troll King – was a freewrite)
o Jaron Lanier, You Are Not A Gadget (may use Practice Essay)
1. Quotation from Kiekegaard, with 100 word Reflection:
2. Quotation from Beowulf, tr. Seamus Heaney, with 100 word Reflection:
3. Quotation from Beowulf, tr. Seamus Heaney, with 100 word Reflection:
4. Quotation from Beowulf, tr. Seamus Heaney, with 100 word Reflection:
5. Quotation from Beowulf, tr. Seamus Heaney, with 100 word Reflection:
6. Quotation from Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, tr. Neville Coghill, with 100 word Reflection:
7. Quotation from Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, tr. Neville Coghill, with 100 word Reflection:
8. Quotation from Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, tr. Neville Coghill, with 100 word Reflection:
9. Quotation from Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, tr. Neville Coghill, with 100 word Reflection:
10. Quotation from , with 100 word Reflection:
11. Quotation from , with 100 word Reflection:
12. Quotation from , with 100 word Reflection:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
1. Pilgrim being evaluated:
2. To which class does this pilgrim belong – nobility, worker, or church? Does s/he behave in a way that we expect for this class? Quote to support, citing line numbers.
3. What is this pilgrim’s job – what exactly does s/he do? Margin notes may help.
4. List the specific details we are TOLD about this Pilgrim’s physical life. Include things like appearance, possessions, and physical behavior. Quote for support; cite line numbers. Remember: if you are told nothing, that tells you something!
5. List the specific details we are TOLD about this Pilgrim’s moral or mental life. Include anything having to do with language, belief, or behavior towards others. Quote for support; cite line numbers. Remember: if you are told nothing, that tells you something.
6. Based on what you’ve found, rank this pilgrim on this scale:
Purely Vulgar Mixture of both Purely Sophisticated
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
7. Based on what you’ve found, rank this pilgrim on this scale:
Purely Profane Mixture of both Purely Sacred
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8. Based on what you’ve found, rank this pilgrim’s motivation and impact on this scale:
Purely Physical Mixture of both Purely Spiritual
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
9. Based on what you’ve found, rank this pilgrim’s motivation and impact on this scale:
Purely Selfish Mixture of both Purely Selfless
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
10. Put this all together in a freewrite (100 words) evaluating this pilgrim by Chaucer’s criteria. Use evidence you have gathered above, and quote for support, citing line numbers!
Reading Guide for General Prologue ll. 43 ff: The Pilgrims
Chaucer asks us to analyze the Canterbury pilgrims using the very specific things he points out:
What their condition was, the full array
Of each of them, as it appeared to me;
According to profession and degree….
· “condition,” i.e., of the soul: Is this pilgrim’s life dominated by cupiditas or caritas?
· “profession and degree”: Is the pilgrim a good representative of his class and job?
Using these criteria, analyze and evaluate Chaucer’s pilgrims. We will visit 10 pilgrims: Knight, Squire, Yeoman, Prioress, Wife of Bath, Parson, Plowman, Miller, Summoner, Pardoner.
As you read, answer these questions. Use questions 1-6 to analyze evidence; evaluate pilgrim in question 7. Create and complete a SEPARATE page of answers, notes and quoted passages for each pilgrim.
1. Pilgrim being evaluated:
2. To which class does this pilgrim belong – nobility, worker, or church? Does s/he behave in a way that is ideal for this class? Quote to support, citing line numbers.
3. Describe this pilgrim’s job. What exactly does s/he do? Margin notes may help.
4. List the specific details we are TOLD about this Pilgrim’s physical life. Include things like appearance, possessions, and physical behavior. Quote for support; cite line numbers. Remember: if you are told nothing, that tells you something!
5. List the specific details we are TOLD about this Pilgrim’s moral or mental life. Include anything having to do with language, belief, or behavior towards others. Quote for support; cite line numbers. Remember: if you are told nothing, that tells you something.
6. Based on what you’ve found, rank this pilgrim on this scale:
Purely Vulgar Mixture of both Purely Sophisticated
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
7. Based on what you’ve found, rank this pilgrim on this scale:
Purely Profane Mixture of both Purely Sacred
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8. Based on what you’ve found, rank this pilgrim’s motivation and impact on this scale:
Purely Physical Mixture of both Purely Spiritual
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
9. Based on what you’ve found, rank this pilgrim’s motivation and impact on this scale:
Purely Selfish Mixture of both Purely Selfless
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
10. Put this all together in a freewrite (100 words) evaluating this pilgrim by Chaucer’s criteria. Use evidence you have gathered above, and quote for support, citing line numbers.
Turn In Today:
· Reading Guide: Analysis of Knight
· Freewrite: Evaluation of Knight based on analysis