Monday, October 19, 2009

Satire in the Simpsons

This site has episodes of the Simpsons you could watch to identify satire:
http://www.fox.com/fod/play.php?sh=simpsons

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Intro to Canterbury Tales- Due Wednesday 10-21-09

This week we will begin exploring Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. To prepare for our next reading journey, I want you to visit and explore the website devoted to the tales (a link is provided for you on the home page). For Wednesday, I would like you to find out the following things about the tales:

1. Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
2. When was his collection of tales written? How were they written? Why were they written?
3. Descibe at least three things about the time period.

These points will be addressed in class on Wednesday. For your blog, share at least one (1) important idea you learned from the website.