Brit Lit:

Yesterday:

Journal Prompt:  Please tell me about your experience with poetry.  Do you write poems?  Have you ever connected with a poem?  

We read the poems on pgs.  170-179  by Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Philip Sidney.

We took notes on sonnets

You each needed to write a 14 line sonnet based on what you are feeling today.

HW:  Find and bring in a poem that you emotionally connect to.

Today:       
Journal Prompt:  Please write the poem that you selected in your journal and explain why you selected it.

I gave you a handout of poems used in the movie Dead Poet Society.

We watched the movie that made me want to be a teacher, Dead Poets Society.                                          

Brit Lit:

Today:

We finished playing our review game, Who Wants to Win a Pizza Party.  Great effort by all.

We took the Anglo-Saxton Unit test.

If you did not take it, I am afterschool Monday and Wed.  Please make it your responsibility to make it up.

https://vimeo.com/121493389

Today: We reviewed for the unit test Wed.  I collected your video game manuals.

Review sheet for Unit 1 test:

Please review the following:

Creation Stories

Hero’s Journey

Oral Tradition

Epic poetry

Caesura

Kenning

Ballad

Folk Ballad

Life of Chaucer

Symbolism

Direct and indirect characterization

All the characters from the C. Tales

Morality Plays

Medieval Romance

 

Stories/poems/ballads:

The Seafarer, Beowulf, Sir Patrick Spens, Get up and Bar the Door, The Twa Corbies, Barbara Allan, Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Everyman

Brit Lit:

Today:

We took notes and defined Medieval Romance:

We defined Morality plays.

We read the play Everyman as an example.

I broke you into small groups to construct your own morality play.  I collected these.

HW:  Video game manuals are due Tuesday.

Test Wed on first unit.  We will review Tuesday,

Brit Lit:

Today:
Day 1 of 2 computer time.

Today we completed our research on 14-15th c weapons.  You also completed your weapon page for your video game manual.

You typed your one pg summery of the story.

A Block- I passed back your journals and other assignments.

Here is the assignment as a whole:

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: the Video Game

Assignment: You work for a small indie video game company, and have just purchased the publishing rights for a new video game based on the story. Please design a manual that will explain how the game is played. You will be graded on the following rubrics:


1.) A cover that has the title of your game and cover art for the game.

10 points

2.) Weapons page. Detailing at least 5 weapons that you have researched from the 14th century. Please include a picture and detailed 3 sent description for each.  These need to be in your own words.
20 Points

3.) Intro page, which summarizes the entire story.  250 words min.
20 Points

4.) 10 Levels. For each, please do the following:

Create a title for the level

Give a 5-10 sentence description of the objective of the level.

30 Points

5.) End boss

Include a detailed picture or description, including the one weakness that allows you to destroy the boss and win the game.
20 Points.

 

 

 

 

Due Date:______________

Full Text

http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/English/GawainAndTheGreenKnight.htm

Brit Lit:

Today:

A Block:

We selected one of your 3 pilgrims and I asked you to write a one page story that they might have told on their pilgrimage.  I collected these.

We shared these and guessed at which pilgrim would have told the tale.

We watched two more of the C. Tales from the BBC

HW Read the Pardoner's Tale

C Block:

We took notes on Chaucer

We broke into small groups and each looked at the characterization of 3 pilgrims.
Each group presented these.
You all took notes.  These can be used on the Quiz.

HW Read the Pardoner's Tale.

Brit Lit:

Today:

A Block:  I collected your journals.

We watched:
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=canterbury+tales&qpvt=canterbury+tales&FORM=VDRE#view=detail&mid=23525B0DB78374E3280223525B0DB78374E32802

Brit Lit:

A Block:  Journals will be collected Friday.  Please make sure that they are all complete.

We broke into groups and finished your C. Tales character sketch

We presented these to the class.

We took notes on all of the characters,

HW:  Please read 101-112 in your anthology.  Quiz on notes Friday.



C Block:

We took the essay exam for Beowulf.

I passed back your first papers

I passed out portfolio folders to collect your major assignments.

Brit Lit:

A Block:

Journal Prompt:  Please describe a time when you went on a trip/journey where you learned a new thing about yourself from the experience.        1/2 page

We finished your symbolic representation assignment.

I broke you into groups and assigned you your pilgrims that you are responsible for presenting to the class.

C Block:
We finished the movie.  The last 10 minutes I let you break into groups and share your findings. Test Thursday. 

Brit Lit.

Today:

A Block:  We finished Beowulf.
We finished the journal prompt detailing ten ways the story follows the HQ.
We read the Ballad of Barbara Allan.

HW Please read pg 91-96 in your anthology.

C Block:  We watched the documentary: In search of Beowulf.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C0sFXU0SLo

We broke into small study groups and reviewed the translation.  You generated 1 page of notes that you will be allowed to use on the test.

Test Tuesday:  Compare and contrast the animated movie to the translation that we read,.  You may use notes.

Brit Lit:

A Block:  Journal Prompt:  Please use your notes on the hero's quest and describe in detail how the movie/full story of Beowulf follows it.  You may make a list, just be sure to describe each in detail.  Please aim for 10 of the 12.

We watched the animated version of Beowulf.

C Block:  Demonstrating what we have been talking about with the oral tradition, I told my ghost story from when I was teacher in Ireland. 

HW:  Please make sure you have finished Beowulf for Monday.