Wednesday, Week 15

We continued working through the history of English relative clauses (including Early Modern English relative clauses).

I distributed the final exam.

Final Exam Rules:

1. The final exam can be turned in electronically or on paper to my office (347 Avery) by 5 p.m. on Wednesday of Finals Week.  
2. Please do not collaborate on the final or discuss it with anyone other than me.  
3. You may use any written materials you want, but they must be cited in the exam.

Monday, Week 15

We started working through relative clauses throughout the history of English.

On Wednesday, we will continue working on relative clauses, and I will distribute the final exam.  On Friday, I will answer any questions you may have about the class and the final exam.

Friday, Week 14

We discussed and collected the homework.  Then the class did teaching evaluations.

The final exam is going to be take-home, distributed on Wednesday of dead week and due by 5 pm on Wednesday of finals week.

Wednesday, Week 14

We worked through negation from OE to PDE:

Monday, Week 14

We talked about the Great Vowel Shift -- using this site
http://eweb.furman.edu/~mmenzer/gvs/. Look it over before class on Wednesday.

New homework due on Friday: pp. 19-21 in HEL: problems 1 (comparing the Queen Elizabeth version with the Chaucer version), 4, 5, 7, 9.

Wednesday and Friday of Week 13

We finished working through the last homework assignment and collected them. We are starting on Early Modern English on Monday.

Friday, Week 12 and Monday, Week 13

On Friday, the class did another quiz, identifying Old English vs. Middle English versions of a text and then identified the dialect of another ME text.

I returned the graded quizzes and we went over them as a class and then we started working through the homework.

Wednesday, Week 12

We returned and discussed quiz 3. I announced quiz 4 for Friday: it will cover the same material as quiz 3, with different texts AND it will ask students to identify texts from different ME dialects using the same kind of evidence.

Friday, Week 11, and Monday, Week 12

On Friday we did quiz 3--it will be returned and discussed next Wednesday. On Monday, we worked on ME dialects, using page 6 of the homework distributed in class (due on Friday).