Assignment for 9/25/12 Class

I will be out today due to illness. Please sign the roll sheet that Ms. Jordan from the Dean's Office will bring up to the classroom. Your assignment is as follows:

• Make sure you have read the entire General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. 
• "Translate" the lines you were assigned for oral reading as best as you can into PDE (Present Day English) without using any help. This is not graded! This is just practice, so no worries if it isn't perfect! This is just like what we did with the recipe for the marzipan - just try to re-word it in modern speech as closely as you can without using any help except for footnotes provided in your text. Write your "translation" in your class notes.
• "Card" the General Prologue as we have done other texts in class.
•  Find Chaucer's death date and list it on your timeline, as well as the date for The Canterbury Tales. 
• Skim read "The Pardoner's Tale" and "The Wife of Bath's Tale" and identify any examples of cap-a-pie that you can find. Read "The Wife of Bath's Tale" carefully for general understanding of plot. If you need to, you may use plot summarizes to support your reading but PLEASE read through the tale on your own first. Even if you struggle to understand, it is important that you push yourself through and read each word. It won't kill you - it will only make you stronger!
• I will see you in class on Thursday and hand your papers back.
• Feel free to e-mail me with any questions that you may have.