Bell Work:

1. Bell Work: • Do men and women have the same understanding of the following subjects: • Love • Marriage • Family • Work • Money • Loyalty Write one paragraph explaining and defending your point of view.

2. The Wife of Bath’s Tale

3. Key Idea • Many jokes suggest that when it comes to emotional responses and attitude toward relationships, men and women might as well be from different planets. But is there really such a gulf between the sexes? In “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” a man becomes motivated to gain understanding of women when is life is at stake.

4. Quickwrite • How difficult is it for men to understand women? Are the differences between them fundamental or superficial? • Write one paragraph in response to those questions.

5. Vocabulary • Implore- to plead; to beg • Crone- an ugly old woman

6. Vocabulary • Sovereignty- rule; power • Bequeath- to leave in a will; to pass down as an inheritcane

7. Vocabulary • Temporal- of the material world; not eternal • Rebuke- to criticize

8. Homework • Complete the vocabulary in context activity for homework tonight