Literature Reader Robin Hood and Geoffrey Chaucer

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Robin Hood

Accordig to legend,
Robin Hood was an 'outlaw'.
What's an outlaw?

'Beyond the pale' (expression)

Pale = “wooden stake, picket; fence made from wooden stakes, palisade; bounds, limits; territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction”,

'Beyond the pale' suggests that anything outside an authority’s jurisdiction is uncivilized.

Explain: what's an outlaw
who lives 'beyond the pale'?

What did Robin usually do with the money he stole from the rich?

1. He gave it back
2. He gave it to the poor
3. He gave it to the sheriff of Nottingham
4. He gave it to Lady Marian

Robin Hood and the Butcher

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Robin Hood and the Butcher:

Read page 40-41 and answer the questions on page 41.

1. What does the sheriff mean by 'horn-beasts in stanza 20?

2. What does Robin Hood mean by the phrase? (see stanza 24)

3. What is meant by 'good free land' in stanza 21?

4. In which stanza is it made clear that the sheriff doesn't know whom he is dealing with?

5. Indicate the lines in which it is made clear that the sheriff feels cheated.

6. How does Robin Hood alert his followers to the fact that they should reveal themselves?

1. Three short trumpet blasts
2. By calling out
3. Singing a song
4. By blowing on his hand three times

7. How does Little John respond in the last two lines of stanza 28?

1. He says that with the sheriff’s money they can buy new cattle
2. He says that with the sheriff’s money they will buy a house
3. He says that he can't come along because he is drunk
4. He says that with the sheriff’s money they can drink all day long.

8. Which words in the final stanza make it clear that Robin Hood has the situation firmy under control?

1. he brought / he set
2. on his dapple gray
3. O have me commended
4. went laughing away

9. Which of the following characteristics of a ballad are absent in this poem?

1. a simple storyline
2. an ABCB rhyme pattern
3. superstition and supernatural elements
4. repetition / refrain

10 What might the moral of this story be?

Homework:

- Make the Internet assignments

on page 41 

- Work on your PO.