Thursday, November 1, 2007

Average English 12 (November 1, 2007)

In Class:

We continued reading Le Morte Darthur on pgs 170-175 in your text

Please be sure to simplify each paragraph in the story, and write down the main idea for each--you are essentially dumbing-down Malory's wordy, archaic, and rather difficult work.

The legendary stories of King Arthur, you are probably familiar with, stem from Malory's original work Le Morte Darthur...which story have you heard? And how is that story similar to, or different from Sir Thomas Malory's (The Death of Arthur)?

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