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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/

The real Robinson Crusoe

The real Robinson Crusoe

After 300 years  archaeologists have finally confirmed the campsite of castaway Alexander Selkirk, thought to be the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe.An article in the journal Post-Medieval Archaeology claims that an archaeological dig on the Argentinian island of Aguas Buenas, 470 miles off the Chilean coast, reveals evidence of the campsite of an early European occupant.

They believe this demonstrates  Selkirk’s presence on the island, some objects have belonged to a ship’s navigator or master.
Three hundred years after Alexander Selkirk, the castaway who was the inspiration for the fictional Robinson Crusoe, was marooned on an island off the coast of Chile, archaeologists are sure that they have unearthed evidence of his campsite.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article5052265.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3286355/Mystery-of-Alexander-Selkirk-the-real-Robinson-Crusoe-solved.html
A GUIDE TO STUDY ROBINSON CRUSOEhttp://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides4/Defoe.html

MOLL FLANDERS

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mollflanders/section10.rhtml
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mollflanders/study.html