English Literature 12

Hi everyone,
Just a reminder that your essay outlines are due at the beginning of class on Tuesday.
We will be finishing up Mel Gibson’s Hamlet on Tuesday and then beginning to go through the text.
I have been doing a lot of thinking about the log/blog project, and we will discuss that on Tuesday as [...]

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Literature 12
Medieval Essay Assignment
Mr. Nelson
In order to help us keep the Medieval texts we have encountered in our brains, as well as get going on essay writing, we will begin with outlining a comparative essay. This assignment will go through the steps of preparing for writing an essay, BUT does not end with the [...]

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For Thursday’s class, examine page 245. There are two poems there:
Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
and Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”
Pay attention to the tone in each and how they compare. We will explore this in class and you will probably be blogging a response.
I will also give time in class for [...]

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hi everyone,
‘Gawain’ will be discussed on Thursday’s class, as we spent most of today’s class setting up and testing the team blog… My apologies for the many and varied problems we encountered in this process. It is all very new to me , and some of the problems were due to computer errors as [...]

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Please note the following as discussed in class:
Please finish reading the ‘Prologue’ for Thursday.
Thursday’s class will largely be devoted to work time on your poster projects. If you are done, please hand them in and bring other work or reading to do.
Tuesday, Nov. 1st—>Chaucer posters are due at the end of class.
Thursday, Nov. 3rd–> we [...]

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welcome to the evolved english lit.12 blog/homepage.
Please make yourself at home.
Your task for today: check out the blog.
Once you have checked it out (this will be a fast one as content is minimal right now),
please post a comment to this post. Outline your experience with blogs if you have any. If you do not, comment [...]

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Please read up to ‘the Wife of Bath’ (bottom of page 104) for Thursday’s class.
Remember that this week there is a lit. class on Friday as well.
Announced today: tentative due date for Chaucer posters: Thursday, Oct. 27
Test on Chaucer and Beowulf: Tuesday, Nov.1

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