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.