TODAY IN CLASS
We had a casual foundation discussion for Canterbury Tales, rooted in general observations about the spectrum of society one might see at various places (focussing on Western Washington), "high school" as portrayed in film, and some of the predictable "types" at IHS (or practically any large high school).

And we talked a little about satire, from "The Colbert Report" to "Southpark,"  with quite a few stops in between. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales will combine Chaucer's acute observational skill with his ability to point out the shortcomings of certain personality types or of major institutions.  The only difficulty for us will be that the society he examines existed over 600 years ago; the EASY part is that so many human traits have not changed one bit.  They are universal.

In 1st/3rd, we looked at the first 18 lines of the General Prologue, but we didn't do that in 6th.

FOR TOMORROW
No specific homework, but there WILL be a background quiz on pp. 28-33 of the textbook (the Medieval section of the major historical background section at the beginning of the book).  So you need to make sure you're studying it; the one-time through reading before you prepared your ten possible quiz questions will not be sufficient.
During part of class tomorrow . . . . students will work in groups to select the strongest, most representative questions from the homework that was due today.  (Many of you had turned that in on Tuesday).