Chaucer Quiz for 28 February

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English I302

 

A Chaucerian Celebration of Learning

 

Your answers must be in complete sentences with full punctuation.  Do not begin a response with a pronoun.  Any incomplete response, including failure to punctuate, will not receive credit.  The misspelling of obscure words will not be penalized; the misspelling of common words will be penalized 2 points.

 

1.  According to your kindly old teacher, the Prioress has violated her vow of poverty in several ways.  Tell me any one of these.

 

 

 

Your answers must be in complete sentences with full punctuation.  Do not begin a response with a pronoun.  Any incomplete response, including failure to punctuate, will not receive credit.  The misspelling of obscure words will not be penalized; the misspelling of common words will be penalized 2 points.

 

 

 

2.  Where are the pilgrims going?

 

 

Your answers must be in complete sentences with full punctuation.  Do not begin a response with a pronoun.  Any incomplete response, including failure to punctuate, will not receive credit.  The misspelling of obscure words will not be penalized; the misspelling of common words will be penalized 2 points.

 

3.  What is the Monk’s favorite sport?

 

 

 

Your answers must be in complete sentences with full punctuation.  Do not begin a response with a pronoun.  Any incomplete response, including failure to punctuate, will not receive credit.  The misspelling of obscure words will not be penalized; the misspelling of common words will be penalized 2 points.

 

4.  The monk’s eyes are glitter like flames.  What might the flames symbolize?

 

 

 

Your answers must be in complete sentences with full punctuation.  Do not begin a response with a pronoun.  Any incomplete response, including failure to punctuate, will not receive credit.  The misspelling of obscure words will not be penalized; the misspelling of common words will be penalized 2 points.

 

 

5.  Who is the author of The Canterbury Tales? (Spelling counts)

 

 

 

Your answers must be in complete sentences with full punctuation.  Do not begin a response with a pronoun.  Any incomplete response, including failure to punctuate, will not receive credit.  The misspelling of obscure words will not be penalized; the misspelling of common words will be penalized 2 points.

 

6.  What is any one characteristic of chivalry?

 

 

 

Your answers must be in complete sentences with full punctuation.  Do not begin a response with a pronoun.  Any incomplete response, including failure to punctuate, will not receive credit.  The misspelling of obscure words will not be penalized; the misspelling of common words will be penalized 2 points.

 

7.  Whom, besides his father, does the Squire wish to impress?

 

 

 

Your answers must be in complete sentences with full punctuation.  Do not begin a response with a pronoun.  Any incomplete response, including failure to punctuate, will not receive credit.  The misspelling of obscure words will not be penalized; the misspelling of common words will be penalized 2 points.

 

8.  In what city do the pilgrims meet?

 

 

 

9. We have studied enough of Chaucer’s pilgrims to understand that these are character types that we know well.  In one or two sentences compare any character we have studied with someone you know in your own life (“The brave Knight reminds me of my cousin in Iraq because...” or “The nun reminds me of a lady in my church who...”).  Do NOT write anything that will have either of us sued!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10. Multiple choice:  When the teacher gives me a packet to read, to study, and to annotate, this really means:

A.  I’ll get my mama up here to straighten him out

B.  I will review my packet and my notes, will quietly ask my teacher to clarify anything about which I am unsure, and will work a little bit on my own time as is appropriate for a college student

C.  Packet? What packet?  He didn't tell me!

D.  This doesn't apply to me; I'm really cute

English 1302 - Chaucer Essay Due 5 March

Student’s name_________________

Angelina College

Mr. Hall

Due Tuesday, 5 March, at roll call.  Please know that “I wasn’t there that day,” “You didn’t tell me,” “I was supposedly at a baseball game that in fact was rained out and I should have come to class but didn’t,” “I was at a UIL event,” “I had a flat tire,” “I don’t have a computer,” the classic “My printer broke,” and all other pleas, pleynts, and pleadings are void.  This is not a rehearsal, this is your life. 

Your Pilgrimage Through Life

You and some of your favorite (or favourite) school friends check in at the Holiday Inn in Southwark after chasing some street criminals who have stolen your camera.  During afternoon tea (we call it supper here) in the dining room you meet a number of other folks who are planning to take a bus tour to Canterbury next day to visit the site of St. Thomas Becket’s martyrdom in the cathedral and to shop (lots of lovely shops in Canterbury).  You and your friends are invited to join the bus tour (paying your fair share, of course).  The next morning you walk two blocks to the underground (subway) station and, minding the gap, tube to Victoria Station.  After getting lost in the morning rush, you find the northeast door and meet your tour group.  Everyone is very nice except for the elderly couple from Spain who complain about everything. 

While riding the bus through the little towns and hop fields of Kent, write an expository essay or perhaps two pages, employing the MLA format, comparing any one of your friends with any one of the characters in Chaucer’s “Prologue.”  Do not write anything libelous, slanderous, seditious, blasphemous, naughty, rude, or accusatory.

Mack Hall -- Angelina Email

My Angelina email refuses to reveal itself, pleading some excuse about ActiveX.  I don't know what ActiveX is; that sounds like a foot-fungus remedy.

Please feel free to write me at mhall46184@aol.com.

Week of 25 February - 1 March 2013

Week of 25 February - 1 March 2013

Please be advised that some poor fellow whose best friend is his Playstation attacked and hacked my email, erasing my address book. Also, any messages sent to me late last week or during the weekend did not arrive.

English 1301 -- This week we continue PERSUASIVE WRITING. Tonight the rough drafts of your persuasive mini-essays are due, and we'll all take turns reading and bleeding. Your final drafts are due next week. Remember that each essay must feature a complete heading on the first page. Let's practice that MLA format.

Be prepared for a quiz at any time.

English 1302 -- This week we continued the Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Too thrilling, eh! These portraits are examples of DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION; most works develop characters through INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION.

You too are subject to quizzes without warning.

2.13 - Blackboard Not Available

As of 6:30 P.M., 13 February, BlackBoard would not display class bulletin boards. 

English 1301 & 1302, 13 February 2013

Review your syllabus re class requirements; don't lapse into a high school 'tude; that outdated script compromises your professional development.

About those little electric boxes - no one should have to remind you to put them away.  Disconnect from your BFF and focus on building your professional skills. 

Review the MLA format occasionally; again, this is a matter of professional development.  You are preparing to become a young professional.

Remember that you are in college, not high school.

English 1301 - read / study that lengthy handout on persuasive writing.  Consider especially both logical arguments (professional writing) and emotional arguments (common in advertisements, speeches, and editorials).  Take a look at the Real Clear series of essays daily on the 'net.  Read persuasive articles by people with whom you do not agree; learn how to develop arguments and, simultaneously, how to refute them, all in a professional manner.

I should -- should -- have your essays read and marked for you by Monday the 18th.

English 1302 - Read / study Chaucer.  I am boring but Chaucer really is fun.  Consider direct and indirect character development.  Chaucer employs direct development; almost all stories, novels, and films employ indirect development.  Consider why. 

Your mock-Beowulf creative writing pieces were consistently a joy -- genuinely creative, imaginative, thoughtfully-developed.  Thank you.  I urge you to keep such efforts as well as your journals; You will enjoy them in a couple of decades.

Over all, I am pleased with your professional demeanor in class (two or three of your classmates could make a better effort).  If you maintain your personal sense of professional and industriousness, you should do well in four-year school and in life.  Don't develop senior-itis, though; that's the curse of many a final GPA. 

Week of 4-8 February 2013

Week of 4-8 February 2013

English 1301, Monday night

1. Your very good -- typed and complete -- rough draft is due at the beginning of class.  We will all read and critique every paper.  Your final draft is due at the beginning of class next week. 

English 1302, Tuesday morning and Thursday morning

1. Beowulf test Tuesday.  No notes, no help, no restroom breaks -- take care of everything before you come to class.  There are 33 short-answer (complete sentences) questions and one essay question worth 25 points (unless you don't do it, or throw out some wholly irrelevant or inadequate answer, in which case it's worth 50 points).  If you access a little plastic box, even to check the time, that's a zero -- I recommend you pull the battery and put the thing away.

2. On Tuesday I will assign you a creative writing project on Beowulf.

3. On Tuesday we will begin the prologue to The Canterbury Tales in Middle English.  If you want it in a modern translation, you'll have to find it yourself.