Assignment 3

Remember start each day with your SAT question, ACT question, and Grammar Practice (Go to exercises--Comma Splices).  
Esssential Question:  Can Salvation and redemption be bought?  Support your answer, providing a real-life example with a full explanation after reading the assignment.


The Canterbury Tales
• Look up Geoffrey Chaucer-write a paragraph telling me who he was.  Be specific.
• Go to wikipedia and read the synopsis (summary) of The Canterbury Tales.  Answer the following questions in proper English form siting examples from text on your blog (new page):
1. Why is the work entitled The Canterbury Tales?
2. How many tales are there?
3. What is the definition of a literary tale?
4.  What was the agreement for sharing the tales?
5.  Why do scholars consider the work unfinished?
Read The Pardoner's Prologue (p. 142, 143 There is a CD available upon request.)
1.  The Pardoner's Tale is a moral tale.  What is the moral? (line 5-8)
2.  What does the Pardoner do for a living? (line 23-25)
3.  What is the Pardoner's attitude toward those who listen to him preach? (line 19-22)
4.  What is the irony in what the Pardoner does?
Read pp 144-151 and answer the seven questions written in blue in the margins.

Urban Legend
1. What is it/ what are they anyway, and do they have to take place in the city?
Here are some common elements of urban legends:
• happen to a friend or a friend of a friend
• credible: although unlikely, it could happen
• involves something horrifying or bizarre
• involves an unexpected twist
• purpose to teach a lesson

Read the following two urban legends. 2. What is the lesson of each?
http://www.unexplainedstuff.com/Superstitions-Strange-Customs-Taboos-and-Urban-Legends/Urban-Legends-and-Beliefs-The-hook-on-the-car-door.html#b

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blkidney2.htm

Write an urban legend of your own, be sure to use the elements from above.  Remember it can be a letter warning about something or an actual story.  Think about your community, are these any scary urban legends or could there be one?