Learn the first 34 lines of Geoffrey Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by heart. For this project, I will provide you with a printed version of the relevant text, and a tape of each text will be made available in the Language Lab, stored in the Lab's center office, under Ling 215. You can check out the tape if you want to make a copy for yourself for practice at home, while jogging, or whatever. Historical Web Materials Create some web materials for the historical part of the course. For example, write some text about some topic like The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , the Vikings, Old English literature, Old Norse literature, Germanic art, Celtic art in Britain, the Norman Conquest, the story of Alfred the Great, England at the time of some fictional or legendary characters like Ivanhoe or Robinhood, or historical characters like Chaucer or Shakespeare.
Cooperation is encouraged.
Each person should keep track of what part of the materials they produced. When finished, your materials will be linked up with the course web page in an appropriate fashion, with your name given as the author. Include a bibliography. As above, write accessibly and embellish your site with links and graphics to make it maximally appealing to word-curious websurfers. Here is a list of possible mini-projects .