Student worked in groups to review their suggested test questions and to compile a "composite" quiz within their group; all original papers were turned in as well as the one created today by the group.
All classes also looked at the Middle English version of the first 18 lines of the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Takeaways:
- you can recognize quite a few words, and some of you make very good guesses about the rest (unlike Old English, you can almost "read" Middle English)
- notice that you can see the rhyming words at the end of the lines, two by two: these couplets show that Middle English poetry has introduced rhyme (the Anglo-Saxon poetry did not have it). And the couplets were in Chaucer's original writing--not just added by later translators.
In first period, we looked at the text up to the introduction of the first pilgrim, the Knight. We'll do that tomorrow (and move on!) in the other classes.
FOR TOMORROW
Quiz over pages 28-33. The group work today should have been a good study review, but obviously some of you may wish to do more.
The quiz won't take very long; we will be continuing to read The General Prologue.
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