Here you will find additional materials, links to tip sheets and interesting things gleaned from the internet. Click the links to go to the documents or media.
TIP SHEETS, SAMPLES, COMMENTARIES
The link below will take you to the “Downloadables” page of my main blog. There you will find links to all of my Tip Sheets, Sample Assignments, and Grading Commentaries. Please bookmark this page as I will be referring you to these documents during the course.
Links to Dr. Dickson’s Tip Sheets, Samples, and Commentaries
POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS
PPT: Renaissance Intro and Sonnets
PPT: BASES OF COMPARISON and Working Thesis
PPT: REVISED Governance, Power and Authority
PPT: Restoration Sex, Self-Fashioning, and Satire
CLASS DOCUMENTS
Modest proposal in class discussion questions
Daniel Defoe and Sample Sight Passage
Glossary of Terms Used in ENGL 211 NOTE: This glossary may not be 100% comprehensive, so be sure to consult your notes.
SAMPLE ASSIGNMENTS AND COMMENTARY
Commentary on Sample Outline Assignment #1
Commentary on Sample Outline Assignment #2 _2_
ONLINE RESOURCES
Malory\’s Morte Darthur: Luminarium page for additional resources
British Library: eVersions of Caxton\’s Imprint of The Canterbury Tales
Medieval Source Book, parallel text Canterbury Tales
Metro: Middle English Teaching Resources Online–Harvard University
Canturbury Tales General Prologue Smooth Rap in Middle English
Other Bibs and Bobs
Horrible Histories: Elizabeth 1 Online Dating
Beowulf recited by Benjamin Bagby
Beowulf Anglo Saxon and Facing Translation by Benjamin Slade
Beowulf on Stereorarum: E-Text and Resources
Bill Bailey’s Pub Joke in the Style of Chaucer
Chaucer’s General Prologue Read Aloud
Harvard University Chaucer Resource Page
- Chaucer Glossary “Cheat Sheet” PDF from eChaucer
- Chaucer Remix: Patience Agbabi remixs The Canterbury Tales
Link to the “Links/Docs” page for ENGL 100 with REMIX examples
Letters to the Editors, Written by Vikings
LHChamber Music: The scientists of CERN smash atoms in the Large Hadron Collider looking for the Higgs-Boson particle, also known as the “God particle.” Then they “sonify” the data and perform it. Music of the Spheres? Pick up the video at around 8:30 to see how all of the different experiments fit together in a chamber music piece. It’s pretty astounding. The philosophers of the Renaissance would not have been surprised.
John Donne’s “The Flea” read by Richard Burton: In which Donne demonstrates that wit is wonderful and dangerous and, also, that playahs be playin’.