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The Week Ahead in English Literature I

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February 25-March 1: The Week Ahead in English Lit. I

 

Overview:

This week we will continue studying Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, discussing the Wife of Bath's Tale. Pleasee be sure you are using the text linked on the Schedule of Readings and Assignment Deadlines. We will also begin our first collaborative project, and will meet in the library on Wednesday. Finally, we turn to our next unit on poetry and poetics on Friday.

 

Assignments Due:

-No assignments due this week. You should be working on either your Annotation or Editing Project, due next week.

 

Questions to Consider for Reading and Class Discussion:

 

For Tuesday:

-Note how the Wife opens the story--why do you think she begins this way?

-What is the knight's crime in the opening of the story? What is his punishment? What happens (specifically) to keep him from this punishment?

-What is the answer to the question the knight must answer?

-Note carefully the arguments the old lady in the story makes to the knight. How does she persuade him?

-Finally, an interpretive question: does the knight get what he deserves? Does the old lady?

 

For Friday:

-Identify 3-5 examples of the figures of speech defined in the handout in the poems we have read for today.

 

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