Graduate Presentations

Select a topic by signing your name in the space to its right. You have no restrictions on the topic you choose or on the date for which you commit. Do note, however, that the dates below are tentative, so in actuality you are not really signing up for the date, but rather, the corresponding reading topic, an abbreviated indication of which appears in parentheses next to the tentative presentation date. So, for example, the three estates are currently scheduled to be presented on September 2, but if we get off-schedule, the presentation will occur whenever we arrive at the second class on the General Prologue. (You will never be asked to present before the date listed on the sign-up sheet.)

For the presentation, take up to five minutes to teach the topic as a general discussion of the item, aiming at an undergraduate audience. You need not relate the topic to Chaucer and his works: I shall perform that task. If the topic is a literary form discussed in a section introduction within our textbook, your presentation should, of course, go beyond what is there, offering additional information. Your presentation will be evaluated on how clearly and thoroughly (yet succinctly) you present the information.

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