Catching Up

As noted on Monday, we are working on a two-track system this week:
1) Essay prep work and data-mining in class
2) Reading out of the gray lit book at home

There will be some days for which you do NOT have literature homework, because you'll need to do additional work on the essay.  The key re: the essay is that ALL material garnered from the book must be accomplished in class.  There will be points assigned to each step, totally 100:

1) The character bullet chart and thesis formulation sheet (the one you have):  10 points, counted tomorrow
2) Shaping Sheet (the last thing you do with the book in hand):  10 points by the end of Friday's class
3) Rough Draft (done at home using shaping sheet--mostly over the week-end, but with a short opportunity in class on Monday to gather any additional or replacement quotes--due typed by start of class on Tuesday)
4) Final Draft, done entirely at home:  70 points, due Thursday, Jan. 14.

TODAY IN CLASS
You should have completed the bulleted sections for each character, filled in the requested info on the back step-by-step, and finished with a completed thesis.  (Yes, it's bare-bones and "formulaic," but that's good enough to start with.  You can improve the style later on.) Some did, some will have to get this finished ASAP tomorrow.

HOMEWORK from the lit book--
For Wednesday (announced orally and written on the board in class on Tuesday)

• Read the full introduction (pp. 4-10) that covers both the Anglo-Saxon period (review, and it WILL be covered on the semester final) and the medieval period (which is the new material you need for the Chaucer unit).
• Read page 90, a broad intro to Chaucer's life and times

For Thursday:

• Look over p. 91 (but we'll deal with that more later on together)
• Read pp. 92-93 carefully.  No need for me to "explain" this--it's given in clear enough writing.
• Read the first 42 LINES of the General Prologue to Canterbury Tales