Happy Thanksgiving...

Juniors

Your proposal letters are due on Friday. Please tell me what you are planning to do, being as specific as possible, and whether or not you are working with someone else. The letter should be in full block format and can be relatively short (one paragraph). Address the letter to me at school: River Oaks, 600 Hideaway Rd., Monroe LA 71203.

Seniors

You are writing an in-class essay tomorrow (Thursday 11/18). There is no prep necessary, as it will be from a prompt you have not seen. I will tell you, however, that you are writing an analysis essay.

Juniors ~ Restoration Period

For more on the Restoration Period, go to the homepage for the Norton Anthology of English Literature . Click on the picture below to go to Wikipedia's page on Hogarth's Marriage a-la-mode :

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

What better way to spend Halloween than reading a story that begins with a beheading? For the next week or so, we'll be discussing Arthurian Literature, beginning with a look at " Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ," the anonymous tale of a test of courtly love, involving a supernatural green knight and a bet. For more information on the poem, read this introduction . I've also included a prose translation that you can compare with the verse translation we have in our book.

Homework

Seniors Your exam is on Thursday, and your final essay is on Friday. I'll talk more about the essay in class tomorrow. Also, the senior auction project lacks one more important detail - your memories! We will spend a bit of time tomorrow in class writing down some of your fondest memories of your senior year, and the rest of your time at RO. Sophomores Read "Lines Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey," and complete the questions at the end of the selection in your book. As always, please use complete sentences and cite frequently from the text.

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