The Blog is Back

Okay, after a week of cyber-silence, I am back in the blogging business.

If you have been on vacation, sick, or otherwise tuned out, we're still on Chaucer's General Prologue.  Classes have been at different paces.  EVERYONE should have the required notes from the in-class assignment on Tuesday, Nov. 27 pilgrims divided by group), plus the homework of doing three additional pilgrims in the same group.  But as I've stressed many times in class, ALL students are responsible for ALL pilgrims.

We have finished two rounds of group reports, and I'm switching to a quicker version of finishing up.

But the quiz originally announced for Tuesday, Dec. 4, will be on WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5.  

You will be turning in the required notes assignment WITH the quiz.  I simply haven't wanted to take it from you as you've been using them, and obviously they will help you review and study (esp. if you've been continuing to take notes--however, I'll only need to collect the required ones according to the list assigned to to each group).

FOR TOMORROW
Whichever group you were originally in, review and study the the Summoner and the Pardoner.  I am giving you thumbnail summaries of what to focus on for the Reeve, the Miller, and the Manciple; we will stick to our recent pattern of finding that many of these pilgrims are proficient at their actual jobs/occupations but are morally DEficient in significant ways.  But you should also make sure you have read to the end of the General Prologue, because the description of the Host is in that part--he and the narrator both count as "pilgrims."