Post Post Cold Snow Days

FYI Due to all the delays of having class this week, the vocab quiz -for all hours - will be Monday.

2 & 4: We started off class by completing the district assessment, which took about half of our time. (F.Y.I. If you missed the pleasure of taking this assessment, you will need to schedule a time to do so - preferably on Monday or Tuesday so that I may share all of the data at our district meeting.) Then, we shared our third round of allusion posters, which means we are almost through the four weeks of Biblical, mythological, literary, pop cultural, and historical references. Lastly, we returned to the man we "know nothing" about: Chaucer. After reading the general prologue to The Canterbury Tales, we moved into the individual characters. You have been assigned 1-2 of these characters to read and note themes, characterization, occupation/class, and physical description. Some characters have more information for those classifications than others. Don't worry if you were absent, you can still be part of the process! Kyle, you have the Reeve. Cole, you have the Summoner. Hope you enjoy all of these fascinating characters! Here is a version of The Canterbury Tales prologue (may not be the exact same translation as our textbook, but at least you will have the idea): https://tigerweb.towson.edu/duncan/chaucer/duallang1.htm. Although the Middle English version is quite fun for me to read, you may want to stick to the Modern English translation for surety of your interpretation.

7: Surprise, we have class again today, which means you will definitely be ahead of the other AP Lit classes. The plan shall be vocab review, our introduction to Chaucer & his Canterbury Tales, the prologue and its characters (including themes, characterization, occupation/class, physical description), and the start of the Wife of Bath's Tale - ah, is she ever a fun one. I have a feeling whatever we do not finish will be homework reading.