TODAY IN CLASS
1. Pilgrims Quiz.  See me ASAP re: make-ups.
2. Notes by group assignments--I remembered to collect these from 3rd, but in 1st and 5th I simply forgot to request them.  These notes are from sast week (Tuesday during class; homework for Wednesday--and you've been using them ever since, and perhaps adding to them.) Expect to turn these in tomorrow.

FOR TOMORROW
No homework tonight, but make note of the following near-future expectations:

• Read pp.140-142 on Medieval literature, including special insights on Chaucer
• Read the introduction to Chaucer (biographical highlights; other writing)--pp. 142-143 
• Read pp. 168-169 
• Terms:  persona, couplet, frame story, exemplum
• Make sure that you have a grasp of aspects of the General Prologue that did NOT count for the "pilgrims quiz."
• For example, know what April, Becket, Canterbury, the Tabard, and Southward have to do with the events of the pilgrimage
• Also, understand the sturcture of the story contest, knowing how many pilgrims there were in all (29 original plus how many more?  who, exactly?); how many each pilgrim was expected to tell going each way; how many that would be in all.
• Know the extent to which this plan was carried out.  

This information will be part of the Chaucer test late next week, as well as a short section on pilgrims (like today's test), as well as questions over both of following tales and their individual prologues

Tomorrow and Friday--"The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale"  (170-181)
Next week--"The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale"  (183-197)