Literature links and study guides

Narrative Genre

http://www.englishlanguageterminology.org/index.htm


Literature Wiki

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The Best Notes

A good link for literature

THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER

http://www.novelexplorer.com/category/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner/

POETRY

WEBQUESTS

Canterbury Tales Webquest

            Today you are going to research background information about Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales.  Anything not completed in class should be finished for HW.

- Working alone or with one other person, use the links to answer the questions listed below.  - Please PARAPHRASE your answers rather than copying and pasting information.You may type your answers directly into the document and print when finished.

1.      Geoffrey Chaucer: What kind of writer was he?

2. What were the years of his birth and death?

3. Where was he from?

4. What was his “masterpiece” ?

http://www.bartleby.com/65/ch/Chaucer.html

2.      What is a pilgrimage? (You should already know this from our vocab. quiz.)

3. Define prologue.http://www.webster.com (or other dictionary site)

4.      Where is Canterbury?

What famous event happened there?

What are the goals of the many people who travel there on pilgrimages?

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Canterbury,-England

http://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/history/history.aspx

5. When were The Canterbury Tales written?  In what language were they written?

·         What are they about? What is a frame tale? What happens in the Prologue?

http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/canttales/gp/

http://www.librarius.com/cantales.htm

        6. What were the “Three Estates” during the Middle Ages?

Estate =

1st =

2^nd =

3^rd=

How were women categorized?

The “___________________ estates”

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http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl430/estates.html

6. What was the Black Death?

http://www.bartleby.com/65/ch/Chaucer.html

http://the-orb.net/textbooks/nelson/black_death.html

7. Choose a picture from the site below to copy and paste it into this document:  http://www.godecookery.com/macabre/macabre.htm

(Copy, paste and resize to fit this space.)

What do you notice about the illustration?
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4 Class
A modest proposal
http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Jonathan-swift-a-modest-proposal-annotated#note-1163636
Modern topic
http://www.bbncommunity.com/child-hands-beggar-always-sleeping/