Individual and
Group Assignments
(scroll down to see your group's assignments)
For
Group Memberships, see lists of members in Moodle
Assignments (Group and
Individual)
9/1: Introduce yourself to the class (in the
appropriate discussion space).
9/3: Post your statement on what you think the
period of the Middle Ages was about in "Assumptions" discussion space
(no attachments).
9/13: Post as
individual (not with your group) Capellanus volume interpretive
analysis and commentary (no attachments). Do not post, however, until
reading the material at this and connected links: http://web.njit.edu/~kimmelma/hss403romanceDLsummerBackground.html);
the relevant pages in The Art of Courtly Love include
the entire Introduction and pp. 27-36, 68-83, 107-41, 151-212.
9/18: Group work on Ywainshould begin now or sooner.
9/20: Individual responses to at least
three of the medieval lyrics provided, including an analysis of at
least one of them (no attachments).
9/27: Group questions on Ywain
due today, before midnight (no attachments).
10/1: Group answers to Ywain questions due (no
attachments).
10/11: Group questions on the
Lais of Marie de France due today, before
midnight (no attachments).
10/15: Group answers on the
Lais of Marie de France due today, before
midnight (no attachments).
10/22: Upload in appropriate place a Word
attachment containing your Term Paper Announcement today.
10/25: Group questions on theRomance
of the Rose due today, before midnight
(no attachments).
10/29: Group answers on theRomance
of the Rose due today, before midnight
(no attachments).
11/8: Group questions on theSir
Gawain and the Green Knight due today,
before midnight (no attachments).
11/12:Group answers on theSir
Gawain and the Green Knight due today,
before midnight (no attachments).
11/22: Group questions on theTroilus
and Criseyde due today, before
midnight (no attachments).
11/29: Group answers on theTroilus
and Criseyde due today, before
midnight (no attachments).
12/9: Upload in appropriate place a Word
attachment containing your eight best posts to the class.
12/9: Upload in appropriate place a Word
attachment containing your Term Paper before midnight.
12/9: Upload in appropriate place a Word
attachment containing your Final Exam before midnight.
Group Work
Below please find the group assignments for the course. If you scroll
down in Moodle and click on Group Study Discussion
Space you will see you are in a group. Please click on the group name
(for example, "Group 1") and post a message introducing
yourself to the rest of the group. Group members must organize
themselves in order to carry out the group assignments (see the
schedule of due dates below and also see the course website but
especially the subsidiary page there called "Introduction"
--this page is also available from the course homepage in Moodle).
Group
Assignments
Ywain
Group 1:
Pages 1-26
Group 2: Pages 26-56
Group 3: Pages 56-80
Group 4: Pages 80-113
Lais
of Marie de France<>
Group 1: Lais 1-3
Group 2: Lais 4-6
Group 3: Lais 7-9
Group 4: Lais 10-12
Romance of
the Rose
Group 1: Pages 3-42 (i.e. through the Spring of Narcissus)
Group 2: Pages 43-58 (Hope and Despair up to line 3815)), and 134-38
(Advice of Friend, lines 8687-9009)
Group 3: Pages 259-99 (Nature’s Confession)
Group 4: Pages 300-35 (Sermon of Genius and Conquest of the Rose)
Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight
Group 1: Part 1
Group 2: Part 2
Group 3: Part 3
Group 4: Part 4
Troilus and Criseyde
Group 1:
Books 1 and 4
Group 2: Book 2
Group 3: Book 3
Group 4: Book 5