Post for Friday, Oct. 22

IN CLASS ON FRIDAY
We finished some content-related aspects of "The Seafarer"--though exactly where we picked up varied in both classes.  The essential thing was to complete the accounting of the inter-connection of pagan/Christian, and to discuss the implications of finding such poetry in books compiled by monks in the first place.  (The final 2 1/2 lines of "The Seafarer" were probably added by the scribe.)  For "The Wanderer," I recorded whether you wrote the required short summary of the poem's content/action.  (If you were absent on Friday, show me that you have done this BEFORE we get started on Monday.)

FOR MONDAY
No direct homework.  However, there will be a quiz later this week on the background information, so you might want to start learning this information.  We will go over the worksheet info on Monday--so anyone who had been absent and has not gotten that in must do so by the start of class Monday as well. [Anyone absent on 10/18 ONLY is way past due for this; however, a couple of people were gone for several days.]

There will be some sort of assessment later in the week on the short poetry, too, but the format is TBD at this point.