Sir Gawain and The
Green Knight
Responding to Literature
Session 1
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WARM UP
INITIAL
DISCUSSION
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LITERARY
ANALYSIS
READING
SKILL
WARM UP:
DRAW THE SENTENCE
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GATHER IN 2
GROUPS
COME TO
THE BOARD
DRAW
Based on color
paper.
5 members of each
team will come to
the board one at a
time.
Help your team earn
points, but without
speaking!
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GOOD
LUCK!
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“To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still
alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair
ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given
equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished
in virtue.”
—PLATO
IS
HONOR WORTH DYING FOR?
INTRODUCTION
Whether honor is worth dying for is
a good question medieval knight
Would have no trouble answering…
but what do you think?
DISCUSS
Get together with several classmates to make a
Venn diagram. Compare and contrast what it
means to be honorable today with what it meant to
a medieval knight. Are there similarities in the way
we define honor today?
Medieval times
Example of Venn diagram
What does honor mean today
versus what it meant in medieval
times
Today
LITERARY ANALYSIS:
MEDIEVAL ROMANCE
A medieval romance is
a dramatic verse or prose
narrative that usually
involves adventurous
heroes, idealized love,
exotic places and
supernatural events. This
gender at first appeared
in France during the 12th
century and soon spread
to England.
CHARACTERISTICS OF ROMANCE
Idealize or largerthan-life characters
A hero who faces a
challenge or test
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Exotic settings and
supernatural or
magical elements
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Hidden or mistaken
identity
READING SKILL:
MAKE INFERENCES
What does it mean to make
inferences?
READING SKILL:
MAKE INFERENCES
Making inferences is sometimes called “reading between
the lines” because you come to understand something in
the text that the author has not explicitly stated.
What can you infer from the following lines from the
Arthurian story “Sir Gawain and The Green Knight”:
If they were like stone before, they were stiller now
Every last lord in the Hall, both the high and the low
MEDIEVAL
ROMANCE
From Sir Gawain And The
Green Knight
romance by the Gawain poet, translated by John
Gardner
The only surviving early manuscript of
“Sir Gawain And The Green Knight”
produced by an anonymous copyist
around 1400, also contains three religious
poems -Pearl, Purity and Patience- that
are believed to be work of the Gawain
poet.
A MAN FOR ALL
SEASONS
…that he was widely read in French
and Latin and had some
knowledge of law and theology.
THE IDEAL KNIGHT
What do you consider to be the
most important virtues of chivalry
back then ?
A knight dutifully obeyed a code of
chivalry that represented a
combination of Christian and
military ideals including, faith,
modesty, loyalty, courtesy, bravery
and honor.
ASSIGNMENT
1.
Complete the worksheet
provided.
2.
Complete the plot.
3.
Get ready for a
discussion to check out
comprehension next
week.
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