Today we started class discussing how long the parodies need to be for our lit project. We determined that it should be longer than the cook and around the length of the franklin. It should also be in rhyming couplets, but it does not need to be in old English or iambic pentameter.
We then discussed our upcoming quizzes. It will cover everything during the medieval period, not including the prologue of the Canterbury Tales and Beowulf.
After that we read Bonny Barbara Allan. It was a tragic love story about a relationship gone wrong. Sir John Graeme dies of a broken heart over Barbara Allan and Barbara Allan died out of guilt of her lack of courtesy to Sir John on his death bed. They are buried together in a church yard where the roses over his grave entwine in a true love knot with the briers over hers.
Lastly we went over Everyman. When Sesame Street’s Big Bird visited the Nixon White House as a guest of First Lady Patricia Nixon, the Secret Service’s radio frequency got mixed up with Big Bird’s microphone frequency so the Secret Service was picking up Big Bird’s lines in their earpieces. We discussed the questions and whether the play focusses too heavily on good works.
Homework:
Read the Middle English Period for tomorrow
Lit project due Friday
Bonus project due Friday
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