Tuesday, September 12th

Focus

· Combining Sentences

· The Middle Ages and the Canterbury Tales: The Canterbury Tales

Class work

· DOL: Revising Sentences

· Combing sentences lesson 12: Using Adjective Clauses

· Discuss the essays over Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

· Discuss the project over Chaucer’s Canterbury tales and give out study materials

· Take notes over the introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer and the Chaucer movie

· Begin reading from The Prologue (Time Permitting)

To be turned in Today

· Ballads

Homework

· Read the first 1/2 of the Prologue and make a chart assigning character traits to each pilgrim.

On-Going Projects

· The Middle Ages

· Summer reading projects

Portfolio Additions

· Heroism Quick-write

· Beowulf study questions

· Beowulf test (You should spend additional time on the content of this essay.)

Extra Credits

Musical Ballads