English 3 Please take out something to write with! Ms. Batchelor

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74glI1lg1CQ

Homework/Reminders Submit final draft of Beowulf essay to turnitin.com by 11:59 pm 10/3.  Final Draft rubric linked on website Bring your Norton Anthology

What do we know after watching the documentary?

So what kind of story is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1375-1400)? It’s a ROMANCE—but not in the way we usually think of romance ROMANCE: a narrative set in a world of pure wish fulfillment superhuman heroes fight and almost always conquer the forces of evil the hero undertakes a hard journey in search of something valuable!

So what kind of story is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1375-1400)? Arthurian Romance Alliterative Revival The author asks us to “listen” to a story he has “heard”—what does that tell us? “beheading game” Gawain will have to try to uphold his truth/troth –faith pledged by one’s word and owed to a spouse, a lord, or anyone who puts someone else under obligation

MajoR Chivalry: The world of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is governed by well-defined codes of behavior. The code of chivalry shapes the values and actions of Sir Gawain and other characters in the poem. The ideals of chivalry come from the Christian concept of morality. His pentangle (five-pointed star) represents his troth Values: fair play, nobility, valor, honor, courtesy, & loyalty

Chivalry

Bob & Wheel rhyme Alliteration strophe Alliterative voice Group of 5 rhymed lines Follows unrhymed lines At the end of a strophe Repetition of Similar Sounds in 2 or more words rhyme Repetition of Initial Consonant Sounds Alliteration Structure of the rhyme; (in this case, ABABA) strophe

Bob and wheel The bob appears in red, and the wheel appears in blue. Alliterative components are in bold print, and rhyming components are in italic print Sithen the sege and the assut was sesed at Troye, The borgh brittened and brent to brondes and askes, The tulk that the trammes of tresoun ther wroght Was tried for his tricherie, the trewest on erthe-- Hit was Ennias the athel and highe kynde, That sithen depreced provinces and patrounes bicome Welneghe of al the wele in the west iles. Fro riche Romulus to Rome ricchis hym swythe, With gret bobbaunce that burghe he biges upon fyrst, And nevenes hit his aune nome, as hit now hat. Ticius to Tuskan and teldes bigynnes, Langaberde in Lumbardie lyftes up homes, And fer over the French flod Felix Brutus On mony bonkkes ful brode Bretayn he settes  with wynne,  Where werre and wrake and wonder Bi sythes has wont therinne, And oft bothe blysse and blunder Ful skete has skyfted synne.