1. Honors British Literature
Week 3

2. Class 1: Ms Tempest out
Annotating “Helen of Kirkconnel”
Coats of Arms

3. Objectives SWBAT… Create portfolios
Understand how English evolved from a Germanic language (Old English), through Middle English, to Modern English

4. Syllabus Quiz
Hand back and go over answers

5. Coats of Arms Put your name on the top edge of your portfolio
Put your coat of arms inside to be handed in
Diagnostic essays/rewrites

6. KWL Charts
What are some confusions or questions, and what were you able to clear up (or not)?

7. Magna Carta Signing

8. Language in the Middle Ages
How has the language spoken in Britain changed since the Middle Ages?

10. The English Language: Old English
English is a Germanic language like German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Africaans, and Yiddish
Spoken by the Anglo-Saxons from about 500 to 1066
Language was also influenced by Latin (Roman Invasion AD and the Church)
Most famous epic poem: Beowulf
Poetry style: Alliterative Verse

11. Whan that aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of march hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne, And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open ye (so priketh hem nature in hir corages); Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes, To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes; And specially from every shires ende Of engelond to caunterbury they wende, The hooly blisful martir for to seke, That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.

12. The English Language: Middle English
Spoken in England from 1066 to about 1500
1066: The Norman Invasion
Normans: people from the north of France
Led by William the Conqueror
Now, French-speaking people rule England
English becomes a blend of Germanic and Romance languages
Most famous writer: Chaucer
Poetry styles: Alliterative verse and rhymed verse

13. Origins of English Words
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14. The English Language: Modern English
Spoken in the British Isles from around 1500-now
Includes Shakespeare’s English as well as ours
So what’s the take-away?
Languages are never stable
How is our English still changing today?

15. Books!
The Canterbury Tales

16. Homework
Read and annotate to the top of p. 7

17. Objectives SWBAT… Review the beginning of the General Prologue
Identify the difference between direct and indirect characterization
Analyze a pilgrim portrait from the General Prologue

18. Announcements Helen of Kirkconnell annotations
Quiz Monday on the Middle Ages!

19. A Medieval
Pilgrimage
(image from
1400’s)

20. Canterbury
Cathedral

21. Geoffrey Chaucer

22. The Canterbury Tales Homework check Review of reading
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23. Characterization Let’s pick somebody who we all know…
Now, tell me about this person

24. Characterization
Direct: tells the audience what the personality of the character is.
Indirect: shows things that reveal the personality of a character:
Speech: What does the character say? How does the character speak?
Thoughts: What is revealed through the character’s private thoughts and feelings?
Effect on others: How do other characters feel or behave in reaction to the character?
Actions: What does the character do? How does the character behave?
Looks: What does the character look like? How does the character dress?

25. A Description of a CATS Student
There was a student, thoughtful and studious. He always made it to class on time, except when he saw friends in the hall, or had an important phone call to make, or wanted a snack. He slept in class no more than 3 times a day. He was a fantastic student! He loved English so much that he saved it for the most special of occasions. He found a way to defeat the Boston weather; forget dress codes! His hat never left his head, and he always wore sweatpants. He was so courageous that Miss Doyle’s talk about Stage 5 never frightened him. He would surely graduate with honors.

26. The Knight Direct characterization: Indirect characterization: Speech
Thoughts
Effect on others
Actions
Looks

27. The Squire Direct characterization: Indirect characterization: Speech
Thoughts
Effect on others
Actions
Looks

28. The Prioress Direct characterization: Indirect characterization:
Speech
Thoughts
Effect on others
Actions
Looks
Is there anything that seems wrong about the Prioress?

29. The Genre of the General Prologue
Estates satire
Satirically describes different classes of people
Some pilgrim portraits are sincere
Other pilgrim portraits use humor to poke fun at the pilgrim as a representative of his/her entire class

30. Pair Work: Portraits
Step 1: Read and figure out what is being said about your pilgrim
Step 2: Choose roles. One person should be in charge of drawing the image, and one person should be responsible for the writing (on 2 separate papers)
Step 3: Show your pilgrim!
One paper: An accurate visual representation
One paper:
A list of DIRECT characterizations of your pilgrim
A list of INDIRECT characterizations of your pilgrim
A verdict: Is your pilgrim a good person, considering his/her role in medieval society?

31. Homework Finish your part of your pilgrim
Read and annotate from the top of p. 21 to the bottom on p. 24
Review for Middle Ages Quiz