Tomorrow:  Quiz over Sir Gawain and the Green Knight--no background on this (either for the poem itself, the writer, or the medieval context) EXCEPT that it does represent the genre of a "medieval romance."

There will be a section short-answer and multiple choice questions which you'll do and then turn in--then an open book section (using all four of your hand-out packets) section for some longer responses.

TODAY IN CLASS
Students received an "recycled"  medieval quiz to use as a study guide for the Medieval Period; use it  it together with your earlier study guide that focussed more on Chaucer.

There was also time to begin reading the selection from "Le Morte d'Arthur" by Sir Thomas Malory.  Be sure that you read the intro material on p. 246, the paragraph about conflict on p. 247 (though we emphasized in class that the first sentence misleadingly suggests that medieval romance is the only genre of literature that features conflict as part of plot--nearly all plots involve conflict!).

FOR TOMORROW
Yes, the quiz, but if you read, kept up, and listened in class you should need only light review.

You should plan to spend some additional time (30 minutes or so) to continue and hopefully finish the story:
Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur

You can fill out the medieval quiz-as-study-guide any time over the next couple of days. Start on p. 28 of the following link for the Medieval Unit.
Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Unit Introductions