Grade 12: Unit 2, Whole-Class & Small-Group Learning

He'd seen some service with the cavalry
In Flanders and Artois and Picardy
And had done valiantly in little space
Of time, in hope to win his lady's grace.

He was a fat and personable priest;
His prominent eyeballs never seemed to settle.

He was an easy man in penance-giving
Where he could hope to make a decent living;
It's a sure sign whenever gifts are given
To a poor Order that a man's well shriven,
And should he give enough he knew in verity
The penitent repented in sincerity.

He knew the taverns well in every town
And every innkeeper and barmaid too
Better than lepers, beggars and that crew,
For in so eminent a man as he
It was not fitting with the dignity
Of his position, dealing with a scum
Of wretched lepers; nothing good can come
Of dealings with the slum-and-gutter dwellers,
But only with the rich and victual-sellers.

A Sergeant at the Law who paid his calls,
Wary and wise, for clients at St. Paul's
There also was, of noted excellence.
Discreet he was, a man to reverence,
Or so he seemed, his sayings were so wise.

Benign and wonderfully diligent,
And patient when adversity was sent
(For so he proved in great adversity)
He much disliked extorting tithe or fee,
Nay rather he preferred beyond a doubt
Giving to poor parishioners round about
From his own goods and Easter offerings
He found sufficiency in little things.

Enunciation, pacing, and emphasis are key elements of a speaker's delivery.

Some gestures are descriptive, helping to create a visual sense of a speaker's ideas.

Intended audience reactions are the ones performers strive to evoke.

Electing Wat Tyler, an eloquent demagogue and veteran of the wars, as their commander in-chief, they seized Canterbury, forced the mayor to swear fealty to "King Richard and the Commons," and liberated from the Archbishop's prison the idealogue of the movement, John Ball.

Abbeys and monasteries on the way were a special object of animosity because they were the last to allow commutation of servile labor.

He returned to the camp at Smithfield for another meeting with the King, where he put forth a new set of demands so extreme as to suggest that their purpose was to provoke rejection and provide a pretext for seizing Richard in person: all inequalities of rank and status were to be abolished, all men to be equal below the King, the Church to be disendowed and its estates divided among the commons, England to have but one bishop and the rest of the hierarchy to be eliminated.

Let me imagine, since facts are so hard to come by, what would have happened had Shakespeare had a wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith, let us say.

She had the quickest fancy, a gift like her brother's, for the tune of words.

The reality of my life was conquests, subjugation, humiliation, enforced amnesia.

And then in those fields that were now hemmed in by wire fencing that a privileged woman didn't like was planted a vile yellow flowering bush that produced an oil, and my friend said that Mrs. Rothchild didn't like this either; it ruined the English countryside, it ruined the traditional look of the English countryside.

Praise had bled my lines white of any more anger,
and snow had inducted me into white fellowships.

Each vertical column has a heading that identifies the type of information recorded below.

Headings in public documents usually use formal, condensed language.

Statistics can include numerical data such as ages, dates, heights, or weights.