In Class:
- Outline/ overview of "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" on pages 260 and 261 in the text
- Compare/ contrast discussion questions regarding the concepts discussed in the essay (versus those ideas/ concepts expressed by other Renaissance poets we've discussed thus far).
The questions were:
Groups 1 and 3:
- Describe the allusion used in the title. Who uses this phrase in daily life?
- Explain the contrast between the ruler of the country during most of the Renaissance and a typical family lifestyle depicted in the second and third paragraphs?
- What jobs were given a name due to the practices demonstrated on page 260? And how did this somewhat help the state affairs in England.
Groups 2 and 4:
- Due to the up rise of mercantile peoples, what (depicted on page 261, in the first column) can be said about those people who had money to spend on frivolous things? There is a clue within the first sentence of the second paragraph on page 261.
- Why is Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread a good title for the essay?
- The picture of life during the Renaissance, in this essay, starkly contrasts that of the picture of the Renaissance as seen through the eyes of many poets we’ve read about throughout the unit. Why? EXPLAIN?
ALL:
Despite the differences depicted in the way of life, what still affected EVERYONE!!! (CLUE: Death Be Not Proud, and On My First Son...Carpe Diem!)
