Honors Agenda 11/07, 11/09

Plan for Monday 11/07Do Now: • Grab a textbook from the window; Review The PardonerPlan:• Canterbury Project Groups (20 minutes) ---

– Write 20-line General Prologue • If you don’t finish, it is DUE THIS Wednesday• AGAIN MAKE SURE THAT IT IS APPROPRIATE. Some decades did have excessive drug use, however NOT ALL

OF YOUR CHARACTERS should have addictions. Also, make sure that their professions are school appropriate.

• Ballad Poem Introduction– Sir Patrick Spens, Barbara Allan; Supersize Me Ballad

Homework: DUE WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 9th

• The Pardoner Compare/Contrast Short Answer• Unit 4 Quiz• Complete the General Prologue for your Canterbury Project

DUE MONDAY NOVEMBER 14th • Canterbury Tales Project• Canterbury Tales/Ballad/Medieval Literature Test

DUE WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 16th

• Canterbury Tales Storytelling Festival (prepare your presentations)• Unit 5 note cards due

First of all, what is a Pardoner?

A pardoner was a person who had a license to sell pardons for sins committed. Basically, if you wanted your sins to be forgiven, you would give the pardoner a certain amount of money, and he would “take away” your sins.

What is the term that we learned that means “a bought forgiveness.” Starts with an ‘I.’

Genre-category a story or script falls into (i.e. thriller, horror)

• The genre of the Pardoner’s Tale is Sermon.

• Sermons are exhortations (encouragements) to abandon vice (moral weakness) and turn to being virtuous (morally excellent)

The Pardoner’s Tale…a Sermon?

There are a few reasons why this tale is classified as a Sermon

1.) The story begins with the Pardoner preaching about sins like gluttony (eating excessive amount of food) and avarice (an intense need for wealth).

2.) The tale itself is about what happens when you commit sins like avarice.

Theme, Tone, and Moral

• Theme-Avoiding sin and the consequences of sinning

•Tone- Hypocritical SIN

• Moral-When you commit a sin, like greed, it will usually be the death of you. Also, if you go looking for Death, you will find him.

• Chaucer’s Attitude-The Pardoner will eventually reveal his sinful side. There are a few hints in the prologue about how the Pardoner isn’t as pure as he seems to be (i.e. at the end of the prologue, it says that the Pardoner will get the money and food that he wants whether he has to take it from a poor widow or a poor page).

What kind of guy is this Pardoner?

• The Pardoner isn’t exactly a noble, but he is well respected. A lot of people believe that he never does anything wrong. The Pardoner seems to tell the tale in order to make up for all of the bad things that he did and to justify doing them.

• The character is telling the story like he was giving a sermon in church. He wants to teach people not to be sinful and do things such as gamble, be greedy, or drink and eat in gross amounts.

Summary of the Prologue Chaucer said that the Pardoner is always preaching about staying away

from avarice, which is an overwhelming desire for wealth. But towards the end of the prologue, Chaucer reveals that the Pardoner said that no matter what, he will get “money, wool, cheese, and wheat” whether he has to take money from a poor widow or page, or a person who has no kids because of famine. Every town he visits, he says that he will have a “wench”, which is a young woman. And by “have” he means…well you know what he means. And no matter what, the pardoner will not get a job, because he doesn’t want to work his poor, fragile hands. He will preach and beg in sundry (different) lands until he gets the money and goods he needs. At the end of the prologue, the Pardoner says that even though he is a “vicious man” (someone who will inflict pain or suffering), he can still tell a “moral tale.”

The Pardoner’s Tale

The first part of the tale consists of the Pardoner giving a sermon about how bad avarice (intense need for wealth) is and how everyone should repent for their sins. Then the Pardoner goes on to tell a story about three men. The three men were drinking at a tavern, and they saw one of their friends being carried away. They discovered that he had died. They then decided to try to find Death and kill him. On the way to find Death, they came across an old man that tells them where to find death, which was by a tree. Once they arrive at the tree, they find bags of gold.

The Pardoner’s Tale

The three men agree to share it and they send one man to the town for bread and wine. Once he left for town, the other two men plot to kill him with a dagger. The man who went to town plots to kill the other two with rat poison he bought and poured into wine bottles. Once the one man got back from the town, he was killed by the other two with a dagger. Afterwards, they decided to drink and be merry. They ended up drinking the poisoned wine. Needless to say, all three men died and no one received the gold.

The Pardoner’s Tale At the end of the tale, the Pardoner talks about how he sells

fake relics in order to make a lot of money. He also makes people pay him gold and silver before he would pardon their sins.

A Deeper Meaning?The tale points out that : 1.) even the most unlikely person (a pardoner) sins 2.) sins (like greed) can lead to death and 3.) if you look for Death, you will find him

Actions, Plot, Time Period and Lifestyles

Clues given about the time period?

Church was a big thing back in the day, and people were firm believers in

being forgiven for their sins. The church had a lot of power, and controlled quite a bit of people’s everyday lives. Usually if you were some-sort of church member, you were respected and people rarely doubted your actions. So when the Pardoner would ask people for money or food they would never think that he was going to use it for his own pleasure.

Alcohol was used quite often to celebrate, relax or just to have something to drink. For example, when the Pardoner starts to tell his tale, he starts off with a small group of guys drinking together in a tavern. He later ends the tale with two guys drinking to celebrate not having to split their gold.

Modern-Day Person Similar to the Pardoner Billy Graham Billy Graham is a TV Evangelist. He traveled around

the country, preaching God’s word. He said that everyone is a sinner, and will burn in hell if they do not repent. Sometime during the year of 1977, a bank account was found with a sum of $23 million dollars in it. To cover up this bank account, Graham started the Samaritan’s Purse. People were encouraged to give money to the Samaritan's Purse, which provides aid to victims of natural disaster, disease, war and poverty.

Billy Graham

Later in the year of 1992, he was being investigated for his use of the company plane, and how much money he was paying himself from the Samaritan’s Purse. Obviously Billy boy is going to keep on taking money and what ever else he wants from the Samaritan’s Purse and other organizations.

The Tale of the Three Brothers

Respond for homework – Due Wed

• Compare and contrast the two videos with The Pardoner. You do not have to write a formal essay, but you should respond as if this were a short answer response.– Rephrase the question and introduce your points

with clear topic sentences– 1st paragraph should compare– 2nd paragraph should contrast

Medieval and Contemporary Ballads

Ballads have strong associations with childhood: much children's poetry comes in ballad form, and English poets traditionally associated ballads with their national childhood as well.

Ballads emphasize strong rhythms, repetition of key phrases, and rhymes; ballads are meant to be song-like and are usually an oral form of poetry.

http://www.math.grin.edu/~simpsone/Connections/Poetry/Forms/ballad1.html

Characteristics of the BalladSimple language• Ballads typically were from the oral-tradition, so the language and word choice tend to be simple so that

everyone and anyone could understand it and recite it.Stories• Ballads tend to be narrative poems, poems that tell stories, as opposed to lyric poems, which emphasize

the emotions of the speaker.Ballad stanzas• The traditional ballad stanza consists of four lines, rhymed abcb (or sometimes abab--the key is that the

second and fourth lines rhyme). The first and third lines have four stresses, while the second and fourth have three.

Repetition• A ballad often has a refrain, a repeated section that divides segments of the story. Many ballads also

employ incremental repetition, in which a phrase recurs with minor differences as the story progresses. Dialogue• As you might expect in a narrative genre, ballads often incorporate multiple characters into their stories.

Often, since changes of voice were communicated orally, written transcriptions of oral ballads give little or no indication that the speaker has changed. Writers of literary ballads, the later poems that imitate oral ballads, sometimes play with this convention.

Third-person objective narration• Ballad narrators usually do not speak in the first person (unless speaking as a character in the story), and

they often do not comment on their reactions to the emotional content of the ballad.

http://www.math.grin.edu/~simpsone/Connections/Poetry/Forms/ballad1.html

Barbara Allan (p. 193)Answer the following questions about Barbara Allan:

• Why does Sir John Graeme get sick and then die for Barbara Allan?

• When Barbara Allen says that he once ignored her, what is his reaction? What does that show about him?

• What kind of person is Barbara Allen? (pay attention to the ways that she treats Sir John Graeme: telling him that he is dying, leaving him before he dies, and then dying for him after he does.)

• The ballad does not explicitly describe Barbara Allen as being cruel, but it implies it. Identify places in the poem that reveal her hard-heartedness.

• Barbara seems to experience a change in the poem. At what point does she change? How are those changes implied?

• What is the rhyme scheme?• What lines/phrases are repeated?

Sir Patrick Spens (p. 194)Answer the following questions about Sir

Patrick Spens:• Like all ballads, this one tells a story. Briefly

summarize the plot. • Does the fact that the king in line one likes to

drink "blood-red" wine suggest something about him? Does it foreshadow something that will happen later in the poem?

• How would you describe Sir Patrick's character? Why, for example, does he move rapidly from laughter to tears in the fourth stanza?

• Why does Sir Patrick Spence go on the trip even after he knows it is a death-mission?

• What is the rhyme scheme?• What lines/phrases are repeated?

Supersize Me Ballad

Ask myself a question,Is my stomach bigger than my eyes?Stomach is a rumbling,Therefore, I must Supersize. The Golden Arch man asks,“Hey, would you like a side of fries?Double your order too?”And my reply, “Yes, do Supersize.” Dollar Extra Values,Not to mention the toy surprise!Economical and tasty,Oh the rewards of the Supersize. FDA? A conspiracy.Subway Jared? A skinny in disguise.Say what you want,I am still gonna Supersize. You are what you eat.Judge that by my hearty thighs.So what? I like things BIG!Hey, why be a twig? Supersize!

My arteries clogging.“No more of it,” my doctors advise.My aorta’s worn thin,Yet I am still compelled to Supersize. My kidneys are bad, but…I have two. No prob if one dies.No Atkins or South Beach,Pop a diet pill instead. Supersize! Eating fatty fat treats,With my blood pressure on the rise,Why do I do it still?Why can’t I stop the Supersize? The battle of the bulge.Many losses despite numerous tries.I can’t help it though-I am a victim of the Supersize. Why do I eat so much?Well, wastefulness is a sin in my eyes-I’d hate to go to hell, so…In the name of God, I Supersize. But I confront myself now.I contribute to my own demise.My name is Jason Lin,And my body dies when I Supersize.

• Grab a textbook from the back of the classroom• Respond to the following scenario:

It’s late at night on a cold winter day. You and your significant other are both already comfortably in bed, watching TV. You’re both ready to go to sleep, but the light is on and the switch is on the other side of the room, meaning that one of you will have to get up out of bed, into the cold, and turn it off. You turn to your significant other and begin to make your case as to why the other should turn the light off. You finally agree to disagree and stubbornly come to this solution: whoever complains first about the light has to turn it off.

First, make a list of reasons why the other should turn the light off. (If you are male, you are the sexist, make me a sandwich type of guy; if you are female, you are a feminist, we’re equal type of girl).

Second, tell me what you would do in this situation and why. Would you act stubbornly or just turn the light off because it doesn’t matter… you just want to sleep!

Get Up and Bar the Door!Turn to page 196

Plan for Wednesday 11/09Do Now: Study Unit 4 Vocabulary (noon) Plan:• Take Unit Quiz• Read The Wife of Bath’s Tale (p. 155)

– Answer questions/discuss• Study guide assignment due at end of class

Homework: DUE WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 16th

• Canterbury Tales Project• Canterbury Tales/Ballad/Medieval Literature Test

DUE FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18TH • Canterbury Tales Storytelling Festival (prepare your presentations)• Unit 5 note cards due

After the Quiz• Read (silently) The Wife of Bath’s Tale (p. 155)

– You may want to take your own notes on The Wife of Bath so that you can use them in your study guide

– What is the moral or theme of this tale?– How is the Wife of Bath’s character a bunch of contradictions.

• Make a Medieval/Canterbury/Ballad Study Guide– The prize for the creators of the top 3 study guides will be being allowed to use their

notes for the first 5 minutes of the exam. ********Winners will be announced on the day of the exam.

– Topics: • Medieval History, Chaucer, Prologue, Pardoner, Wife of Bath, Ballad format, Barbara Allan, Sir

Patrick Spens, Bar the Door• Things that will make your study guide stand out:

– Coming up with relevant study questions– Creating mnemonic devices to remember information– Neatness and thoroughness of topics– Writing your study guide in ballad form!!! (DO IT, YOU WON’T)

– TO BE ELLIGIBLE FOR THE PRIZE, YOUR STUDY GUIDE MUST BE TURNED IN BY THE END OF THE PERIOD. If you do not finish your study guide, you must still complete it for homework but you will not be able to win top-3. (Work quickly; work hard).

The Wife of BathHow do the two relate to each other?

Write your own ballad!

Traditional Folk Ballad Assignment • We have discussed common characteristics of ballads and

have read and enacted some medieval ballads. Now, it is time for you to demonstrate your understanding of this poetic form by writing an original ballad.

• Ballad must: – Be on a school appropriate topic– Have 4 stanzas with (abab or abcb rhyme scheme)– Lines of repetition– Written in 3rd person– Contain multiple speakers and/or dialogue