Homework Board

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Here is where homework will be posted following classes. Please copy the information here onto your respective homework boards in your common rooms.

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Homework Lesson 1

* YOU DO NOT NEED TO HAVE BEEN PRESENT AT THE CLASS TO DO THIS HOMEWORK!!!!

For reference please see the Lesson One thread.

Homework is NOT compulsory. There are four assignments in all. You do not have to complete them all however the more you do, the more points you'll achieve.

Quote:

1) Which is your favourite piece of work by John Webster and why? Also, which is your favourite quote from one of his pieces of work and why?

2) Write a detailed account of the life of John Webster.

3) What was the state of the Muggle World like in the time of John Webster? Write about the hierarchy, the monarchy, the social/political/economical/cultural and religious status of the country (UK).

4) Translate the following passage into modern English. What does the language tell you about the piece? Analyse it as closely as you can.

"Fall in a frost and leave his print in snow:
As soon as the sun shines, it never melts,
Both form and matter. I have ever thought
Nature doth nothing so great, for great men,
As when she's pleased to make them lord of truth:
'Integrity of life is fame's best friend,
Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end'."

('The Duchess of Malfi' - Act 5, Scene 5, lines 115 - 121)

ALL assignments are worth TWENTY points each, maximum.

Homework must be PMed to ME. The deadline is May 29th 2005.

* Please post this in your respective common rooms.

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Please make it clear in your PM which assignments you've done.

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Homework Lesson 2

YOU DO NOT NEED TO HAVE BEEN PRESENT AT THE CLASS TO DO THIS HOMEWORK!!!!

For references please see the Lesson Two thread.

Homework is NOT compulsory. There are four assignments in all. You do not have to complete them all however the more you do, the more points you'll achieve.

Quote:

1) Which is your favourite piece of work by Chaucer and why? Also, which is your favourite quote from one of his pieces of work and why?

2) Write a detailed account of the life of Chaucer.

3) What was the state of the Muggle World like, in the time of Chaucer? Write about the hierarchy, the monarchy, the social/political/economical/cultural and religious status of the country (UK).

4) Translate the following passage into modern English. What does the language tell you about the piece? Analyse it as closely as you can.

And with hir heed she wryed faste awey,
And seyde, 'I wol nat kisse thee, by my fey!
Why, lat be!' quod she. 'Lat be, Nicholas,
Or I wol crie "out, harrow" and "allas"!
Do wey youre handes, for youre curteisye!'

('The Miller's Tale' lines 175 - 180)

ALL assignments are worth TWENTY points each, maximum.

Homework must be PMed to ME. You must specify which assignments you have completed.

The deadline is June 27th 2005.

* Please post this in your respective common rooms.