Class Notes

For Assignments we have these so far just in case no one copied them down in class:

Create Your own Coat of Arms
minium= shield, atleast one charge, and motto/ scroll beneath shield
Can add: supporters, complicated shield design, etc. Be creative.
-Needs to have a written explaination and intelligent attempt at a blazon of your shield.

Due Date: November 21st

Extra Credit?
-post on blog examples and explainations of heraldry in daily life.

Class Notes:

Today we began with our quiz and then started to discuss the Canturbury Tales Unit.

Break down of Lines 1-18

When:Spring time
Why?
- matiing season/ social occasions
- desire to venture out of town a person had been stuck in for the majority of the winter time
- cycle of life significance/ new beginnings

Context: Pilgrimage
Why?
- religious ferver; religiously motivated
- if sick during the winter (black plague reference?) one would usually pray to get better, this pilgrimage could be of thanks to saint for helping them live through the winter
- sometimes was required

Where: Canturbury
Why?
- there is a shrine there dedicated to a matyr/saint, Thomas A Beckett
- Thomas A Beckett was murdered in church there, not same as Saint Thomas.

Thats basically call we got through,
Alex Taylor