Wednesday
1. Collect essays
2. Coppee
Ch. VIII: Reforms, Richard and John, Wiclif, the clergy
Ch. IX: Social life, chivalry, charters (Magna Carta, etc.)
Ch. X: Greek, printing, poets...but a general dearth.
3. Read Chaucer
a. Life and Works Introduction
b. "Prologue"
HW: Finish the Prologue
Coppee III-VII
Tuesday
Per. 1 Peer edit RD
Vocabulary Questions 41-60
Coppee
Ch. III:
Anglo-Saxon (German; see tree); earliest great Saxon poem is Beowulf
Caedmon 600’s
Ch. IV Bede (672-735); Alfred the Great (849-901); Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (late 800’s—1154)
Ch. V Norman Rule (1066 Battle of Hastings), Oxford, Cambridge, Culture, Latin, Catholicism
Ch. VI The Morning Twilight: Beginnings of a new poetry
Ch. VII Chaucer (1343--1400) and the Early Reformation. Chaucer is the father of English Poetry for his form, craft, subtly, and choice of English as the language of his poetry. Canterbury Tales begun in 1386, never finished. Trolius and Creseide was prob. what he would have thought his best work. He was one of the the first English poets to employ rhyme royal, iambic pentameter, and herioc couplets. In a time when writing was taken seriously when written in Latin, he wrote in his vernavular (Middle English). Incidentally, this was also Dante's route (for his _Divine Comedy_).
Work on RD
HW: Finish FD of College Essay #1
Wyrd Words: Dr. Peter Leithart and Beowulf
I. Pray
II. See original examples.
III. Review Leithart on Germanic Literature.
1. What insight concerning the nature of the Christian missionary work in the north does Heliand give?
2. Compare this with what you know of missionary work in other areas.
IV. Review Leithart on Beowulf's background.
1. Are the monsters in Beowulf folkloric intrusions? If so, why? If not, why not?
2. Consider the three feats of Beowulf and what each threat symbolizes.
V. Begin ch. 4 in Coppee's literature.
HW: Read chapters 4-6
II. See original examples.
III. Review Leithart on Germanic Literature.
1. What insight concerning the nature of the Christian missionary work in the north does Heliand give?
2. Compare this with what you know of missionary work in other areas.
IV. Review Leithart on Beowulf's background.
1. Are the monsters in Beowulf folkloric intrusions? If so, why? If not, why not?
2. Consider the three feats of Beowulf and what each threat symbolizes.
V. Begin ch. 4 in Coppee's literature.
HW: Read chapters 4-6
Marriage from the Book of Common Prayer
The Book of Common Prayer (1662): The Solemnization of Marriage
These are good words to be reminded of. Lewis opens his novel with the third reason given, which encourages us to consider the first two.
Reverence and goldy fear...
"Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God is a consuming fire" (Hebrews 12:28-29).
What would the opposite look like? Perhaps playing "Another One Bites the Dust" or "Highway to Hell" at a funeral...which it appears may be a temptation to some.
What would the opposite look like? Perhaps playing "Another One Bites the Dust" or "Highway to Hell" at a funeral...which it appears may be a temptation to some.
Coolcabulary
That's right, vocabulary is cool; see, "alarum" (well, ok, "a larum") put to excellent use (album title and cover in first image).
Diabolical Epistle
Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape. Click the link and scroll down for a dramatic retelling of a wicked writ.
AP Language Review: Common Logical Fallacies
Logical Fallacies
ad hominum fallacy — “to the man”; a person’s character is attacked instead of his argument
ad populum fallacy — “to the crowd”; a misconception that a widespread occurrence of something is assumed to make it right or wrong
circular reasoning — using two ideas to prove each other
false analogy — making a misleading comparison between logically unconnected ideas
false dilemma — committed when too few of the alternative are considered and all but one are assessed and deemed impossible or unacceptable
guilt by association – claim is rejected because disliked people accept the claim
loaded words — using highly connotative words to describe favorably or unfavorably without justification
non sequitur — “it does not follow”; an inference or conclusion that does not follow from the established premises/evidence
oversimplification — tendency to provide simple solutions to complex problems
pedantry — narrow-minded, trivial scholarship or arbitrary adherence to rules and forms
poisoning the well – discrediting what a person might later claim by presenting unfavorable information in advance
post hoc ergo propter hoc — “after this, therefore because of this”; assuming that an incident that precedes another is the cause of the second incident (when it wasn't necessarily)
A red herring is a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue. The basic idea is to "win" an argument by leading attention away from the argument and to another topic.
slippery slope – an assertion that some event must inevitably follow without any argument for the inevitability of the consequences
straw man – when a person ignores a person’s actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated, or misrepresented version of that position
Also consider illogical appeals to the following:
Popularity
Ridicule
Emotion
Fear
Flattery
Novelty
Pity
Spite
Authority
Belief
Common Practice
ad hominum fallacy — “to the man”; a person’s character is attacked instead of his argument
ad populum fallacy — “to the crowd”; a misconception that a widespread occurrence of something is assumed to make it right or wrong
- bandwagon – threat of rejection is substituted for evidence, desire to conform to beliefs of a group
circular reasoning — using two ideas to prove each other
- begging the question — assuming in a premise that which needs to be proven
false analogy — making a misleading comparison between logically unconnected ideas
false dilemma — committed when too few of the alternative are considered and all but one are assessed and deemed impossible or unacceptable
guilt by association – claim is rejected because disliked people accept the claim
loaded words — using highly connotative words to describe favorably or unfavorably without justification
non sequitur — “it does not follow”; an inference or conclusion that does not follow from the established premises/evidence
oversimplification — tendency to provide simple solutions to complex problems
pedantry — narrow-minded, trivial scholarship or arbitrary adherence to rules and forms
poisoning the well – discrediting what a person might later claim by presenting unfavorable information in advance
post hoc ergo propter hoc — “after this, therefore because of this”; assuming that an incident that precedes another is the cause of the second incident (when it wasn't necessarily)
A red herring is a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue. The basic idea is to "win" an argument by leading attention away from the argument and to another topic.
slippery slope – an assertion that some event must inevitably follow without any argument for the inevitability of the consequences
straw man – when a person ignores a person’s actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated, or misrepresented version of that position
Also consider illogical appeals to the following:
Popularity
Ridicule
Emotion
Fear
Flattery
Novelty
Pity
Spite
Authority
Belief
Common Practice
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