THe Prioress' Tale

A boy learns a song that praises the Virgin Mary that he songs on the way to school. The Jews in the neighborhood hire a killer who kills the boy and throws him in a well. The boy's mother, in search of her son, hears her son in the well, singing the same song. The boy is taken from the well, and the pebble in his mouth is removed, allowing his soul to go to heaven.

-Joe Forline

The Second Nuns Tale
She heavily believed in martyrdom. She asks for Virgin Marys guidance and also tells the life of St. Cecilia and how she became a Saint.

Sean Bronczyk

The Parson's Tale Sentence

The Parson's tale is a sermon that talks about penitence, sins, and the reign of Christianity, Chaucer has much respect for the Parson and Plowman and he holds them as true Christians.

John Leskow

The Friar's Sentence

The Friar's tale is about an evil summoner/theif, who befriends a yeoman who's a fiend from hell, both extort money, meet farmer who is shouting to the devil to take his problematic horse/cart, shouts to devil to take all of the goods from him, the yeoman can't b/c it is out of anger, then a widow who is being hassled by the summoner for money yells to the devil to take the summoner to hell and he does so b/c the summoner won't apologize and it's from her heart.


- Brianna Lee

The man of law's sentence

This is a tale about salvation through faith. Constance is a beautiful girl who is forced into marriage with a non-Christian and is freed from the marriage and protected during a masacre by her faith. She is also protected from a man who tried to rape her and is eventually reunited with her father and husband in her home country of Rome.
-Paul Derickson

Class Notes: January 2, 2009

First in class we tried to convince Laz to give us a second shot at the quote game. He quickly refused and told us that if we have any questions about the Canterbury Tales test to ask them.

Some of what you will need to know is...
Relationships between pilgrims
General ideas of the time period (ex. corrupt church)
Rise of the middle class
Frame narratives
Fablio

***A helpful tip I thought of in class is to make a flash card for every tale, and write a sentence about the tale, so it will be easy to study for the test on Wednesday. ***

***Also go through the study questions and star the ones you do not know, and only study those questions...it will save you time.***

After a short study session we talked about Shakespeare's sonnets (No. 18, 29)

Shakespeare's 18th Sonnet:

The turn is in line 9. Turn word=But
The sonnet is about a comparison between the seasons and love. More specifically a summers day and a woman. Quatrain 1 and 2 make a comparison of the beauty of a person to summers day. Summer must end, he says that she is better because she will never end. (BUT SHE MUST DIE!!!)
If beautiful things don't last forever...she will NOT last forever (if she is beautiful). He contradicts himself.
*But the real meaning is that the woman that Shakespeare is describing will not ever die, becuase her beauty is written about on paper, and everytime someone reads it, it will restore her beauty.*

Shakespeare's 29th Sonnet:

We did not finish analyzing this sonnet.
We talked about how the man was not accepted in society, he doesn't think anyone, including God is listening.
He has a lack of faith.

Period ended.

John Leskow

Class Notes

Sorry this is really late, didn't know it was my day last.....

In class we were told over break to read Shakespeares Sonnets # 18, 29, 55, 73, 116
1. identify rhyme scheme
2. line structure
3. scansion
4. Turn? (lines 9 or 13)

Then we played the quote game.

-Brianna Lee