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Current Assignment *Class Forum* Class Roster Assignment Schedule Study Guide Questions: guidelines Guidelines for doing reading assignments Papers Evaluation Procedure Relevant Links and author resources TextBooks: TTS Bookstore for required Book list Additional Help for Parents of Great Books Students: Writing Assessment Services (mention your involvement in TTS when you contact WAS) Study Guide Questions and Class Summary To be done for each week's assignment. After each week's class session, post your answers to the study questions for that class along with a short summary of the class session on the class forum. You should do this by the end of the day after class. You should have the study questions done before class, but you may change your answers after class if you need to before you post them. The study questions should be answered in complete sentences. The class summary should be one paragraph, about 150-250 words, and should be a brief discussion of points you found particularly interesting or intriguing, were struck by or disagreed with, or thought were the most important part of the discussion that day. If you miss a class session, you should still post your study question answers, but you may summarize the reading instead of the class discussion. Make sure your name is on your summary/study questions. If you are the first to post, put "Week 1" etc. in the subject line. If you are not the first, read the first post, then hit "respond" and post your material. Assignments 1. Week of Sept. 11 Benedict, The Rule of St. Benedict Study questions The Rule in English 2. Week of Sept. 18 Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People Books 1 - 3.20 (through bk3, chap. 20) Study questions 3. Week of Sept. 25 Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People Books 3.21 - 5 Study questions 4. Week of Oct. 2 Beowulf and Song of Roland Study questions 5. Week of Oct. 9 Einhard and Notker, Two Lives of Charlemagne, pgs. 49-172 Study questions *Paper 1 due Friday* 6. Week of Oct. 16 Anselm, Proslogium Anselm online Study questions 7. Week of Oct. 23 Anselm, Monologium, Study questions Oct. 30 - Nov. 3 Autumn Break 8. Week of Nov. 6 Anselm, Cur Deus Homo (Why God Became Man), Study questions 9. Week of Nov. 13 Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Intro and the Existence of God Read the introduction (p. xi) through Q. 2,3 (Question 2, article 3) (in other words, pgs. xi - p..27) Aquinas online Study questions Nov. 20 - 24 Thanksgiving Week 10. Week of Nov. 27  Aquinas Summa Theologica, Knowledge Read Question 84,1 (p. 376) through Q. 87,1 (p. 428) Study questions *Paper 2 due Friday* 11. Week of Dec. 4 Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Habits and Virtues Read Question 49,4 (p. 544) through Q. 62,4 (p. 596) Study questions (Further optional readings from Aquinas, Summa Theologica, on Law and Grace a. Read Question 91,1 (p. 616) through Q. 94,6 (p. 645) b. Read Question 109,1 (p. 651) through Q. 109,10 (p. 671)) 12. Week of Dec. 11 Lewis, Studies, Pages. 64 - 77, Dante, The Divine Comedy; Hell, cantos 1 - 17 Study questions 13. Week of Dec. 18 Dante, The Divine Comedy; Hell, cantos 18 - 34 Study questions   Dec. 25 - Jan. 12 Christmas & New Year's Break 14. Week of Jan. 15 Dante, The Divine Comedy; Purgatory, cantos 1 - 17 Study questions 15. Week of Jan. 22 Lewis, Studies, Pages. 94-102; Dante, The Divine Comedy, Purgatory, cantos 18 - 33 Study questions 16. Week of Jan. 29 Dante, The Divine Comedy; Paradise, cantos 1 - 17 Study questions 17. Week of Feb. 5 Lewis, Studies, Pages.78-93; Dante, The Divine Comedy; Paradise, cantos 18 - 33 Study questions 18. Week of Feb. 12 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Middle English text online Study questions *Paper 3 due Friday* 19. Week of Feb. 19 Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; "Prologue" and "The Knight's Tale" Middle English text online Study questions Mid-Winter Break: Feb. 26 - Mar. 2 20. Week of Mar. 5 Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; "The Man of Law's Tale", "The Shipman's Tale", "The Prioress's Tale", "The Tale of Sir Topaz", "The Nun's Priest's Tale"; Study questions *Paper 4 due Friday* 21. Week of Mar. 12 Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, "Prefatory Address to King Francis I of France", "Subject Matter of the Present Work"; Book One, Chapters 1 - 10, 15. (The Knowledge of God) Study questions 22. Week of Mar. 19 Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book Two, Chapters 1 - 6. (The Nature of Sin) Study questions 23. Week of Mar. 26 Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book Three, Chapter 2 (Faith): sections 1, 6 - 7, 14 - 15, 29 - 32, 33 - 37, 40; Chapter 11 (Justification): sections 1 - 4, 13 - 20; Chapter 12: sections 1 - 8 (Justification); Chapter 13 (Justification): sections 1-5; Chapter 14 (Justification): sections 1 - 4; Chapter 20 (Prayer): sections 1 - 20 Study questions (Further optional readings from Books Three and Four: Book Three Chapter 21 (Election): sections 1 - 7; Chapter 24 (Election): sections 1 - 17. Book Four Chapter 1 (the Church): sections 1 - 29; Chapter 4 (the Early Church): sections 1 - 15.) 24. Week of Apr. 2 Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 1, cantos 1 - 6 Study questions Easter / Spring Break: Apr. 9 - 13 25. Week of Apr. 16  Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 1, cantos 7 - 12 Study questions 26. Week of Apr. 23 Milton, Paradise Lost, 27. Week of Apr. 30 Shakespeare, MacBeth (Tragedy) 28. Week of May 7 Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream (Comedy) 29. Week of May 14 Shakespeare, The Tempest (Tragiccomedy) 30. Week of May 21 Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 2 (History) *Paper 5 due Friday* Papers See ETS's Paper Guides page for useful help in doing papers. While Talisker Tutorial Great Books papers may not necessarily be the same, the principles will often be useful. See Writing Assessment Service's special offer for Talisker Tutorial Great Books students. Important: Paper Format Guidelines, due dates, etc. Paper 1: Early medieval heroic epic: Compare and contrast the Christian heroic epics Beowulf and The Song of Roland with the pagan heroic epics the Iliad and the Aeneid. Do this either through looking at the heroes or through the tone of the narrative. Approx. 750 words. Paper 2: Anselm of Canterbury: Describe Anselm's view of the relationship between belief, reason, and practice (living a holy life). Reread at least these places: Proslogium, Preface and Chapters 1 and 26; Monologium, Preface and Chapter 79; Cur Deus Homo, Preface and Chapters 1 and 2. Approx. 750-1000 words. Paper 3: Dante's Divine Comedy: Topic of your own choosing (clear it with me before proceeding). Suggested approaches: 1) Explication of a passage--choose a canto or portion of one and unfold its meaning, explaining especially how it reveals Dante's interests or purpose in the poem. 2) Persuasion--choose some aspect of Dante's thought (his view of sin, grace, God, the cosmos, repentance, love, etc.), drawing on several passages, and argue for its value for Christian thought. 3) Poetic reading--choose an image or motif (light, the human face, ascension, guides, flame, flowers, etc.) and trace it through some portions of the story, showing how it reflects something you are struck by in the poem.  Approx. 750-1000 words. Paper 4: Late medieval poetry: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: What is the essence of chivalric virtue; that is, of being a Christian knight? Do Sir Gawain and The Knight's Tale agree in their answer to this question? If not, how are they different? In drawing on Sir Gawain and on The Knight's Tale, take into account the lesson Gawain learns and Theseus's final speech. You might also bring in The Tale of Sir Topaz as contrast, since he mistakes the trappings of chivalry for the essence of it. Approx. 750-1000 words. Alternative: Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion: Write a summary of Calvin's teaching on prayer in Bk 3, Chapter 20, sections 1-20 as though you were instructing a new Christian friend in how to develop a sound prayer life. Decide on Calvin's most important points, organize them into a logical and understandable order, and explain each point as clearly and simply as you can, using illustrations of your own of what to do and what not to do. Remember that if you do this well, it is a pattern you should follow yourself. 500-750 words. Paper 5: Topic of your own choosing. Suggestions: 1) Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book 1--choose an episode and show how it illustrates the failure or progress of holiness. 2) Spenser's Faerie Queene, -- how does the brilliant pageantry in this poem set the tone, or what does it do for the mood of the poem? 3) Choose a theme that can be traced through the whole year's reading (or at least many of the authors), showing how each author treats that theme, what his attitude is toward it's importance, how he presents it, in what literary fashion he presents it, etc. 4) Rave obsessively and uncontrollably about how wonderful medieval literature is. Explain why. Have a beginning, middle, and end. You know I love this stuff--pander shamelessly to me. Hey, just a thought. 750-1000 words. Evaluation procedure No grades will be assigned for either the papers or for the tutorial as a whole. For those parents who desire it, assistance will be provided in determining a grade for the student's semester work. Papers should be posted on the class forum. It will be helpful to the student to see how others write. However, no grades will be assigned for either the papers or for the tutorial as a whole. Evaluations will be provided upon request at any point. See Cascade Independent High School for more detail on credit, grades, etc. Cindy Marsch, of Writing Assessment Services, offers a special evaluation package for Talisker Great Books students. I highly recommend this as a complement to the Great Books tutorial. General Links Internet Medieval SourceBook ORB (Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies) Labyrinth Christian Classics Ethereal Library Creeds of Christendom Foxe's Book of Martyrs Schaff's History of the Christian Church History on the Internet Digital Dante

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