Mon/Tues 12/21, 22 Monty Python Analysis

Mon & Tues 12/21, 12/22

Daily Activity:
Complete viewing film, Mon.
Tues: typed analysis of parody on Holy Grail
(Google Classroom submission)
* See assignment sheet: the goal is to show what you know across the content we have covered on the Medieval world

Reminders/Due Dates:

Thurs/Fri, 12/17 18 Search for the Holy Grail

Thurs, Fri  12/17, 18

Learning Target

View and analyze a parody of medieval romance

Daily Activity:
1. Vocab Quiz: Unit 6 (Thurs)

2. View Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail
Keep a list of details that intersect with the material we have covered that mark parody.
Be prepared to organize the commentary into categories and comment/analyze on Tuesday 12/22

Reminders/Due Dates:
Questions p. 259 due Friday

Wed 12/16 Le Morte d'Arthur

Wed 12/16

Learning Target

Read and analyze a medieval romance

Daily Activity:

Read: Le Morte d'Arthur and complete the discussion questions on p. 259

Reminders/Due Dates:
Vocab Unit 6 quiz tomorrow
Questions p. 259 due Friday

Tues 12/15 Le Morte d'Arthur

Tues 12/15

Learning Target

Listening skills: be able to identify key details and questions from listening/viewing

Daily Activity:

1. Journal on loyalty: p. 243 in text

2. Formative assessment: 15 point group T/F on yesterday's documentary

You may use your Cornell notes and collaborate. For the false items, correct it for bonus points. The goal, to review details from the documentary, gather detail.

Reminders/Due Dates:

Mon 12/14 King Arthur Documentary

Mon 12/14 Arthur, Camelot, and the Grail

Learning Target

View: Myths and Legends (King Arthur, Camelot and the Grail)

Daily Activity:

2 pages Cornell Notes, taken while viewing
Expect a quiz . . . .

Reminders/Due Dates:

Make sure you have turned in your questions and quiz on Sir Gawai

Fri 12/11 Reading Immersion

Fri 12/11 Hours 1,2

Learning Target

Read self-selected texts

Daily Activity:

Reading immersion.

Reminders/Due Dates:

Bring reading materials for Friday

Fri 12/11 Hours 4,7

Learning Target

Determine meaning of words and phrases

Daily Activity:

Vocabulary Unit 6
Corrections in class. Complete and submit if absent; do all parts except 1 and 4.  (I will provide you a photocopy, but complete the work on separate notebook paper. I reuse the copies. If you just fill in the answers, I will ask that you redo it.)
We also corrected the Gawain quiz.

Reminders/Due Dates:

Hand in the discussion questions for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Thurs 12/10 Greek and Latin Roots

Thurs 12/10 Vocab Unit 6 

Learning Target

Determine meaning of words and phrases

Daily Activity:

Vocabulary Unit 6
Corrections in class. Complete and submit if absent; do all parts except 1 and 4.  (I will provide you a photocopy, but complete the work on separate notebook paper. I reuse the copies. If you just fill in the answers, I will ask that you redo it.)
We also corrected the Gawain quiz.

Reminders/Due Dates:

Bring reading materials for Friday

Wed 12/8 Sir Gawain

Wed 12/9

Learning Target

Identify and analyze characteristics of the medieval romance. 

Daily Activity:

After reading "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" complete discussion questions (1-11) on p. 240 

Turn in.
There is a reading comprehension quiz: 14 pts.

Reminders/Due Dates:

Tues 12/8 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Tues 12/8

Learning Target

Identify and analyze characteristics of the medieval romance. 
Art study: visual analysis of narrative elements in a painting

Daily Activity:

1. Journal: Analyze the painting by Herbert Cole on p. 227: What do you see? Consider characters, objects, strutures, color scheme, attitude of characters, potential symbolism. . . . .

In addition: write down the most memorable thing/explanation someone mentioned in the ice breakers yesterday.

2. Read 224-225 in lit text and take notes on "the characteristics of the medieval romance." I would break the steps in your text into smaller segments.

3. Read: "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" pp. 226-239

We listened to it in class. Be ready to complete a quiz on this selection and define the following: ethics, code, chivalry

Reminders/Due Dates:

Mon 12/7 Day 1, Tri 2

Mon 12/7

Learning Target

Daily Activity:
1. Journal: Icebreakers
See me for a topic list. Respond to each item with a brief explanation.
We did several rounds as a way to break into the new trimester.
2. Seating chart and general room tour/policies
3. Assignment: (cooperative)
Find 20 random facts on the Renaissance, things it would be good to know.

Reminders/Due Dates:

Fri 12/4 Reading Immersion

Fri 12/4

Learning Target
Read self-selected texts
Daily Activity:
Test return, Chaucer
Reading immersion (10 pts.)

Reminders/Due Dates:

Thurs 12/3 Chaucer Test

Thurs 12/3 Final

Learning Target
Daily Activity:
Chaucer test

Reminders/Due Dates:

Wed 12/2 Reading/Work Day

Wed 12/2

Learning Target
Read self selected texts
Daily Activity:
1. Hand in Wife of Bath questions
2. Paper return: all other materials for the trimester. You will be able to use all materials generated for the Chaucer test on Thursday.
3. Reading/work time remainder

Reminders/Due Dates:

Chaucer test on Thursday. 

Tues 12/1 Wife of Bath

Tues 12/1

Learning Target
Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts (non-fiction, media)
Daily Activity:
1. After reading "The Wife of Bath"
Complete the discussion questions (1-11) using clear specifics.
These will be graded A, B, C etc., p. 193
25 pts.

Reminders/Due Dates:

Chaucer test on Thursday.