class minutes

Sorry this is so late, I had trouble getting on the site.

First we talked about the Coat of Arms assignment and were given three bonus opportunities. There were to make a Coat of Arms, with blazon and essay, for Beowulf, our class, or Mr. Lazarow. We spent the rest of class talking about English history which gives us a background for Canterbury tales. After 1066, French was spoken by the upper class, and English was spoken by the peasants. After the Black Plague a middle class, who spoke English, was created. Chaucer was in the middle class and he wrote some poetry in his free time from his job as a civil servant. His poetry was important since it was in English and showed that English could also be used for literature.

-Andrew Burke