Mid-term review

Students can access the mid-term review table by clicking on the link I have provided. You will be able to open it as a Word doc. It contains everything you need to study to be prepared.

Picture Prompt

The students completed a picture prompt assignment in class today.

Persuasive Essay

The students completed a persuasive essay in class today. It is worth 30pts. Planning is worth a separate 10pts.

Essay Due 1/5/09

Students are to turn in a completed draft of their essay the Monday we return from vacation. If it is not complete, it will receive a 0.

Have a nice vacation.

The Canterbury Tales essay

Students will be working on the following assignment over the next few days.

Persuasive Essay-50pts
Topic-

Writing Task-The Canterbury Tales-Satire
Choose 2 tales or 2 travelers. In a well-organized essay, discuss how Chaucer uses them to portray the medieval period in a satirical manner.

Satire-
the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.



Brainstorm

Example-character/tale 1
Support-pg #















Example-character/tale 2
Support-pg #














2. Choose tales/characters
· Select the ones that you know best.
· Provide examples and the pages that support the essay prompt
3. Organize
· Number the examples you will use so you know what order they will appear in.

4. Write it
-Intro-state the thesis. Which tales/characters best exemplify Chaucer’s goal of satire.
General to Specific
-Body-
o Present-state the example
o Support-prove it-use the book if it is a literary essay
o Explain-why does this help your argument?
-Conclusion-
o State why your arguments make sense.
Intro-
General-
A little more specific-
Very specific-
Body-
Present-
Support-
Explain-
Conclusion-
Why
State the relevance

Photo Story

Students are completing the following assignment this week:

The Canterbury Tales
Photo Story Project
30pts

Using Photo Story 3 you are to create a narrated slideshow of the tale your group is assigned. You must use images that relate to your story.

Requirements:
Rewrite an abbreviated version of the story and read it.
Provide background music/sounds that add to the atmosphere of the story
Provide appropriate images to help tell the story
Provide text over several slides. Must use specific lines from the story.
You must present your final product.
Presentation must include:
· Explanation of themes and symbols
· Explanation of what the story says about medieval life
· Explanation of morals or lessons from the story

You may do a Google image search for good pictures. You may bring in music or sounds from home. You can also download sound effects to use.

I will provide microphones for narration.

You will have 3 full periods to complete this assignment.

Steps:
Read the prologue to the story and the story itself.
Write the story. I will collect the final copy of it. Include dialogue when necessary.
Decide on appropriate pictures. Search for them and save them.
Import them and put them in the right order.
Narrate the story to the slides.
Add sounds/music
Save to the computer.


Each group was given study questions for the story they were assigned.

The Miller's Tale/General Prologue

The students have just finished a PowerPoint presentation on the general prologue of The Canterbury Tales. They were asked to provide notes on several of the pilgrims.

The students are to finish reading "The Miller's Tale" for HW along with 5 questions that were handed out during class.