Collect HW.
New vocab:
Profound: showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth; great, important meaning
Thesis: A statement that is maintained by argument
Warm-up: Look over chapter 12 and your blog entry and answer one of the following questions:
~What is the most important moment in the chapter? Why?
~What is the most important phrase, sentence or groupd of sentences in the chapter? Why?
Discuss answers.
HW: Chapter 13 plus blog. Pay particular attention to the dream sequence.
NOTE: We will be finshing the book by the end of the week. One more quiz, then an exam before the next unit (poetry).
11R
Quiz on chapters 9 through 12.
Period 1: Read chapter 13 for hw plus m/c questions
Note: quiz postponed for Pd 1 until tomorrow due to absence of too many students.
Pd 7 took quiz, began chapter 13 in class.
English Lit
New vocab from last week:
Romance: a medieval narrative, originally one in verse and in some Romance dialect, treating of heroic, fantastic, or supernatural events, often in the form of allegory.
Allegory: a story meant to be read symbolically.
Check notes. Review "Green Man" image in prep for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SGATGK). View Jack-In-The-Green lyrics and listen to the song. (Handout)
Introduce the poem, look for patterns. Define "Bob and Wheel" rhyme pattern. (Handout)
BOB-AND-WHEEL: A metrical devise in some alliterative-verse poetry of the fourteenth century. The first short line of a group of rhyming lines is known as the "bob" and the subsequent four are a quatraine called the "wheel." The bob contains one stress preceded by either one or occasionally two unstressed syllables (i.e., the bob is only two or three syllables long). Each line of the wheel contains three stresses. Together, the bob-and-wheel constitutes five lines rhyming in an ABABA pattern. Since it matches the alliterative pattern of the first part of the stanza, but also fits the rhyme scheme of the last five lines, the "bob" serves as a structural bridge between the alliterative sections and the rhyming sections of the poem.
Read first two pages of SGATGK for HW.
