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10/9/2013



10/8/2013



10/7/2013



10/4/2013

•1 Week “To Do” List:

•Pick a topic

•Sign up/in to Gmail

•Sign in to Noodle Tools

–New accounts will be made 10/11 in library.

–Account errors/issues will be fixed too.



10/3/2013


 * A dropped quotation is a quote that a writer has just dropped into his or her text without integrating it into a sentence.


 * The quote should never be a separate sentence; it should always be connected to your own sentence.

See activity below. Complete the Integrating Quotations Section



10/2/2013


 * Quote: Exact copy of words (sentence)
 * Paraphrase: Rephrased passage (paragraph)


 * Summarize: Main ideas (entire text)

Activity below. Complete the Note Cards section.

10/1/2013


 * MLA: Modern Language Association
 * From the website: MLA style for documentation is widely used in the humanities, especially in writing on language and literature.



Activity:

Complete pages 103 using the PowerPoint below.

9/30/2013

NO BELL RINGER



Use the Graduation Project Manual to complete the above activity.



9/27/2013

•Chaucer was known as “The Father of English Poetry” because he wrote in the vernacular: Middle English.

•Chaucer was the first poet to be buried in the now famous “Poet’s Corner” in Westminster Abby (10/25/1400).

•Middle Ages & C. Tales “Quest”

– Monday (9/30)

•10 C. Tales Vocabulary

•15 C. Tales (Comp. and Int.)

•5 Bell Ringers (M.A. & C.T.)

•10 Middle Ages Questions

•10 Applying Skills (New Pilgrims)

EXTRA Practice for "Quest"

9/26/2013 Visit from Guidance!

9/25/2013

•Technically, Chaucer was a member of the peasantry but gained affluence as the middle or mercantile class developed.

•The “Tales” were completed in the year 1400 about fifty years after the Black Death.

Pilgrims 6-8 & Comparison Activity

See below for activity and electronic text.

9/24/2013

•The Canterbury Tales is a frame story.

–The pilgrimage is the “frame” or main story connecting the “tales” told during the competition.

Pilgrims 1-5

9/23

•The Canterbury Tales is estate satire. –An estate is a class. •1. Clergy (Church) 7 •2. Feudal (Fight or Feed/Land) 8 •3. Middle (Merchant, Misc.) 15

E-Text The Canterbury Tales

Answer questions 7-15 from Thursday's activity (Prologue Questions CTales 2013)

9/19

•Middle English was spoken during the Middle Ages. This language combined German, Latin, and French.

–English was the language of the people. –Latin … church. –French … court.

Answer questions 1-6

9/18 /2013

Please visit the Common Application Essay page.

9/17/2013

•The word medieval has its origins in the Latin term medium aevum ("middle age").

•The stereotypical middle ages occurred between the 11th and 13th centuries.

9/16/2013

Beowulf Unit Test

85 points

Review crossword puzzles due!