the ballad, "Bonny Barbara Allan" page 108. If you were absent, make notes on the ballad genre (page 105) and then read the poem in a Scottish accent.
You will need to make notes on the Medieval period as well. Here is the group's glog to assist you:
Medieval Glog
We also reviewed via a rousing game of team challenge the following terms/vocabulary:
Heroic couplets, frame tale, hyperbole, apostate, aphorism, stoic, epic poem, wit, understatement, colloquial, iambic pentametre, kenning, allegory, simile, scop, alliteration, sarcasm, philanthropy, caesura, satire, irony, heroic ideal, iamb, pagan, allusion
Study these terms as we will be having a quiz soon.
Tomorrow:
Your "The Seafarer" sheet is due, and we'll read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Friday: The medieval group presents "The Pardoner's Tale".
We'll be finished the unit by Monday.
Tuesday will be the unit 1 test.
