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=What's going on now? =

**Senior Essay/ Presentation** //There will continue to be time in class to take advantage of research facilities and tools as well as my help with formatting, revising or directing you research. (Most likely, these dates will continue to be Fridays)//
 * Senior Research Essays are ongoing now, and due by May 7th, 2010. No excuses!
 * Senior Presentation are due in May. There will be sign ups for these dates.. 2 presentations per day.

= = = **APRIL:** // **Characterization and Theme of Selfishness:** // = //**The Canterbury Tales**//**, Geoffery Chaucer- Pardoner's Tale //The Decameron:// "Federigo's Falcon"**

APRIL/ MAY: The Battle of the Human Psyche: //Hamlet//
= Links and documents for you!! =
 * = http://www.william-shakespeare.info/script-text-hamlet.htm (Full text online) =
 * [[file:hamlet version 2.pdf]](Condensed version of //Hamlet//)

//"To Be or Not to Be," Mel Gibson's Hamlet. Act 3 Scene 1.//
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**Honor, Courtship, and Loyalty: Chivalry** (March 8-19 2010)
KEEP IN MIND: Monday.. Proposals are due for your research project Monday.. Chivalry Project is due (eulogy for Becket or Job ad for a Knight.) Monday.. Podcasting for your Book Talks.. Be prepared with your discussion guide!!

[] //Morte' D'Arthur, Sir Thomas Mallory- read and answer questions on page 195 (1,2,3,and 6)//
 * Info about The Legend of King Arthur:**
 * Chivalry Essay:**[[file:Chivalry essay.pdf]][[file:becket and knights.pdf]]

Click here to open up the mini-research project for Chivalry given in class Thursday, March 11 and due, in artistic and creative form, on Monday, March 15.

**S.S.R. Projects:**
 * S.S.R. reading projects are to be worked on as a group in class. There will be two days in class to continue this work and then these are due April 13, Tuesday.

= What is Love? Really? = //Reading:// //Wife of Bath's Tale// Shakespeare's Sonnets-
 * letter to Shakespeare.
 * Parodies

UNIT: February 2010-Due March 3 2010 = **Beowulf: //The Beginnings of English Culture and Language//** = ** Old English version by Dr. David Breeden **. **-This age offers a translation of the entire epic poem- great for a review!** []

AWESOME SITE to hear all Old and Middle English famous pieces of literature.. By naturally gifted and experienced voices here. @http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/noa/audio.htm

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 * Everything you need to know about the Anglo-Saxons is found here in this site!**

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 * Of course!! Cliffs Notes for you!!! How could we forget them!**


 * Image: of the original Beowulf document seen here!**[]

"KING SEEKS MONSTER SLAYER" Project:
The following are the PDE standards addressed with our Job Application Project for Beowulf. Go to About.com for the [|"RESUME TEMPLATE"] Go to About.com for the [|"COVER LETTER TEMPLATE"]

February 2010. = **Icarus: //The Sufferer//** = The Essay (comparing and contrasting views of the fallen Icarus: Resources are found here!! [|http://www.eaglesweb.com/IMAGES/icarus.] [|htm#musee%20des%20beaux%20arts]
 * Many poems and recordings of these poems are found here, including Auden's "Musee Des Beaux Arts" and Williams Carlos William's poem and others regarding the fall of Icarus.[[image:sorrow.jpg width="202" height="202" align="right" caption="Artwork by: G. Rivera 2010"]]
 * The painting, //The Landscape With the Fall of Icarus//, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder found here too.
 * Recordings available here too!