Peer Response Day!

Upcoming Major Work (Essays, Tests, Projects)

Wednesday, Sept. 24:  Personal Essay--First Draft & Peer Response Day (turnitin.com by 9:55 a.m.)
 If you didn't have the essay on turnitin.com, get it there ASAP.  Info tomorrow on what needs to happen with papers that did not receive a peer-response today (for whatever reason).

Thursday, Sept. 25:  Quiz, Anglo-Saxon background material--See below for a new link

• textbook pp. 23-27 and definitions p. 41
• the hand-out on Anglo-Saxon poetry terms (a longer list than on p. 41)
• the 7-page introduction by David Adams Leeming ((hand-out)
• in-class supplemental lecture notes 

Wednesday, Oct. 1:    Personal Essay--Final Draft & Peer Response Day (turnitin.com by 9:55 a.m.)


TODAY IN CLASS
Yes, the peer response took place.  Do not lose the materials from today--the first draft itself and the peer response to that draft.  You will need to turn both of these in with your final draft next week.

FOR TOMORROW
Study for the Anglo-Saxon unit background quiz.  Elements are listed above.  Here is a link to pp. 23-27, but you'll have to scroll a bit to get there:

Anglo-Saxon Unit Introduction

 I won't ask "content" questions about the two poems so far ("The Seafarer" and "The Wanderer") but I WILL use some examples from those poems to check your understanding of the basic poetry terms on the hand-out you have.

The quiz questions will reflect the areas we stressed most in class--the peopling of Britain, the Roman invasion/occupation, and the successive invasions by the Anglo-Saxons, the Scandinavians (Vikings), and the Normans. But as part of knowing about this era, the content of pp.23-27 and the Leeming hand-out provided much information about culture, the spread of religion, and some of the earliest literature or historical writing that we know about.  All of this is "fair game" for the quiz.

I won't be collecting the "quizlet" hand-out you've had for quite awhile, but you should have that filled out (including the questions I added about both Celtic and Anglo-Saxon religious beliefs) as a guide. We'll go over it briefly during the first part of class.  Tomorrow's quiz will be longer than this very short one, but many of the questions might overlap!