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Here, you will find a very brief summary of class discussions and activities, lists of assigned readings, and links to other resources. The posts are reminders of what we covered in class and/or of what you missed by being absent physically and/or mentally. If we are required to work remotely, the posts will give directions for the day's activities, and let you know when we will meet via Google Meets. Please read the posts, talk with your classmates, and do the practise work as it suits the timing at home. Please put all work in your digital folders via Google Drive. Feel free to make comments and if you're still confused, please email me!

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05 November 2024

B - The one all the Bar-bara Allens.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How does literature reflect the lives of the common people?

We read together and discussed some of the Early Scottish and English Ballads. I highlighted form - four-line stanzas, metrical pattern (iambic tetrametre, trimetre) mimics musical time, alternating rhyme; and we discussed how the content of ballads are mostly life of common people.

We also read together and discussed the growth of the English Language through the middle ages. I suggested that it would be important to note the change in pronunciations because the next period of literature that follows was about careful control of the sounds in language.

READ: the introduction to the Renaissance Period

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