English 4 CP: 9/30 10/1/13

• Bell Ringer
• What is the difference between college level work and high school level work?
• Activities
• Introduction to observations about some of the graded castle projects
• Ties in to the bell ringer
• The difference between adults and children
• Self governing versus teachers having to govern
• Transition to the adult world requirements
• Students were required to take notes on the compare/contrast essay assignment as the first part of the assignment.
• Students are to read 3 segments of the Canterbury Tales.
• Segment 1: General Prologue
• Segment 2: Tale 1 (I recommend the Man of Law Tale)
• Segment 3: Tale 2 (I recommend the Wife of Bath Tale)
• Students were given a handout of guided questions for the General Prologue
• This is a model for taking notes on the two stories they are to compare.
• They will take notes on the two stories independently without teacher guidelines. (This is transitional)
• The other notes included the information on the overhead and  . . .
• Final due date is on or before 10/11/13
• The two recommended websites are
• No Fear Literature at sparknotes.com
• Canterbury Tales at librarius.com
• Student may find other equally good websites.
• Inexpensive books can be bought on line for the kindle or like readers through Amazon and other providers.
• Students need to be reading a translation instead of the old English.
• This is an individual assignment and NOT a group assignment.
• This project is all we will be doing in class until the due date.
• Students need to come prepared to work or be silent so others can work.