English 12:
Read The Wife of Bath's Tale.  Vocabulary test tomorrow.  Sentences will be over the purpose/message of each of the two CT tales read this week.  Focus on the satire, the character and how they are presented, and the difference between the author (Chaucer) and the narrator (Pardoner/WOB).  You will have access to your notes, but not to the text.

English 10H:
Initial finals information.  The following works will be the source material for your semester exam and can be found in the text book:  Ode to My Socks, We Real Cool, Same Song, And of Clay Are We Created, Into Thin Air.  There will also be several cold reads on the test.

In class today: Meet with groups to finalize your presentation details.  You must show me a basic written outline of the structure of your presentation (basically, what are you planning your in class time to look like?) by the end of the hour.

Monday 12/8

English 12: Read and discuss The Pardoner's Tale.

English 10H: Wordwright 2

English 12: CT general prologue part 2 identification quiz and discussion.

English 10H: Hand back and discuss close reading element of Vocabulary Test 6.  Patterns and close reading in Wordwright 2 word list.  We will take Wordwright 2 on Monday.

English 12: Hand back Vocabulary 7 test.  Vocabulary List 8.  These words are Canterbury Tales GP specific, so you need to develop a contextual familiarity with them that can be applied to the characters, the traits, and the descriptions of the GP.  Finish reading the GP (starting with The Skipper) and take notes over the remaining characters.  There will be a quiz on Friday on which you will be given a description of the character and must identify them.

English 10H: GC test. Wordwright 2 will be on Monday 12/8. Here are the words:

From the poems (2 poems):
shire, pall, supple, drawn

From the questions:
onomatopoeia, iambic, feminine rhyme, personification, anthem, patter, orison, pallor, rhetorical question, fulcrum, wry, bayonet, elegiac, alliteration, consonance,keen, villanelle, Shakespearean sonnet, ode, epic, Petrarchan sonnet, tone, talon, brusque, acerbic, cynical, blithe, sage, flippant, heroic couplet, slant rhyme, connotation, irony, halcyon, verb mood, masculine rhyme

Don't forget, the deadline for submissions to the JOCO Library's teen literary magazine Elementia (submit here) is this week.  As of 3:10 pm on Tuesday 12/2 the submission clock on their website is at 3 days 8 hrs.  If you want to submit to this magazine, get it done.  If you want extra credit to go with it, check in with me and a draft of your submission before the deadline.  Submissions are electronic.

English 12: Read first half of the Canterbury Tales General Prologue (GP) in class.  Take notes over each character.  Focus on physical description, personality, and character traits.  Quick ID quiz after reading.

English 10H: Due to confusion regarding the testing schedule over The Glass Castle and how it is configured regarding block scheduling this week, the test dates have been moved to Wednesday and Thursday of this week.  GC test will be Wed/Thurs Dec. 3 and 4.  It will be open book and open note.