The Canterbury Tales - October
“Chaucer is one of the great writers who defeat all criticism, an
attribute he shares with Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Tolstoy.” -Harold Bloom Rvsd:
Oct. 2006
KEY: J
= Journal Due (or alert) Reminder: An alert is given for each journal (J) prior to its actual due date
NOTE: Additional tales and/or literary criticism
may be added, and quizzes may be taken per instructor’s discretion
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Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
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1 |
2 -MC Research |
3 -MC Research |
4 -CL 430 |
5 -CL 430 |
6 -OFF
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7 |
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8 |
9 -OFF
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10 -Present |
11 -Present
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12 -Present |
13 -Present |
14 |
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15 |
16 -The General Prologue w/notes due Tuesday
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17 -Collect
notes -Discuss The General Prologue -The Decameron w/notes due Thursday |
18 -Discuss The General Prologue -The Life and Times of Chaucer
response due Friday |
19 -Collect
notes -Discuss The General Prologue -Character Groups |
20 -Collect response -Character Groups -The Knight’s Tale w/notes J due Tuesday -The Art of Courtly Love w/notes due
Tuesday |
21
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22
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23 -Perform Characterizations |
24 -Collect notes/ J -Discuss The Knight’s Tale/The Art of
Courtly Love -The Nun’s Priest’s Tale w/notes J due Friday |
25 -Discuss The Knight’s Tale/The Art of
Courtly Love
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26 -Discuss The Knight’s Tale/The Art of
Courtly Love |
27 -Collect
notes/ J -Discuss The Nun’s Priest’s Tale -The Pardoner’s Prologue/The Pardoner’s
Tale w/notes J
due Tuesday |
28 |
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29 |
30 -Discuss The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
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31 -Collect notes/ J -Discuss The Pardoner’s Prologue /The
Pardoner’s Tale -The Summorner’s Tale w/notes J
due Thursday |
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The Canterbury Tales – November
“One can wonder if even the greatest novelists
in the language . . . can approach Shakespeare and Chaucer in the astonishing
art of somehow creating fictions that are more human than we generally are.”
-Harold
Bloom
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Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
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1 -Discuss The Pardoner’s Prologue /The
Pardoner’s Tale |
2 -Collect notes/ J -Discuss The
Summoner’s Tale |
3 -Discuss The
Summoner’s Tale -The Wife of Bath’s Tale w/notes J due Monday |
4
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5 |
6 -Collect notes/ J -Discuss The Wife of Bath’s Tale -The Clerk’s Tale w/notes J due
Wednesday |
7 -Discuss The Wife of Bath’s Tale
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8 -Collect notes/ J -Discuss The Clerk’s Tale
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9 (1/2
day) -Discuss The Clerk’s Tale -The Franklin’s Tale w/notes J due Tuesday |
10 -OFF “There was a wolf before him at his feet/His
eyes glowed red, he had a man to eat./Subtle the pencil was that told this
story/Picturing Mars in terror and in glory.” |
11
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12 |
13 -Discuss The Clerk’s Tale |
14 -Collect notes/ J -Discuss The Franklin’s Tale |
15 -Discuss The Franklin’s Tale
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16 -AP Practice -Essay Preparation |
17 -First Draft due -Peer Exchange -Final Draft due Tuesday, 11/28 |
18 |
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19 |
20 -Intro Hugo -$$ due to purchase Les Miserables in
class -COST: $6.00 |
21 -Intro Hugo -Reading Day -NOTE: Les Miserables calendar
forthcoming |
22 -OFF “A tone of moral virtue filled his
speech/And gladly he would learn, and gladly teach.” |
23 -Happy Thanksgiving! “It positively snowed with meat and
drink/And all the dainties that a man could think.” |
24 -OFF “He was a shepherd and no mercenary.” |
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26 |
27
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28 -Final Draft The Canterbury Tales due |
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30 |
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