Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Lyrics
What is
a song?
Songs to Consider
E-40, Tell Me When to Go
Usurla Rucker, L.O.V.E.
M1: from Confidential
Gyptian, Serious Times
Musiq Soulchild,
Akon, Dont Matter
The Roots: Interview
The Roots: Blog and YouTube Link
More Essential Questions
Why are stories important to the way
we organize our lives?
What is a hero?
Where does the world come from, and
is there something after this life?
What is good, true, evil, bad, real?
Painting of
the death
of Roland,
with angels
carrying his
soul to
heaven.
From a
medieval
illuminated
manuscript.
chanson de geste
Culture
A song of great deeds
Style
Selected Laisse
Ganelons plot: laisse: 30-31, 44
Roland assigned to rear guard: laisse 56-57, 58, 59, 60
Pagan attack seen by Oliver: laisse 66, 68, 80
Sound the Horn! Roland Refuses: laisse 83, 85, 86, 87
Defeat is near, laisse, 92, 105, 121
The horn is sounded, laisse, 128, 133, 134, 156, 166, 172, 177
Plot of The Song of Roland
The Song of Roland
Blancandrin
Marsilla
advises
tricking
Charles to
Blancandrin leave Spain
by offering
him gifts and
loyalty.
Marsilla sends Blancandrin to the
camp of Charles with his offer.
Charlemagnes
men must
choose
someone to go
to the pagan
(Moslem)
camp to
receive their
formal
surrender.
Ganelon This is a
dangerous
task.
Roland
recommends
Ganelon for
the task. But
Ganelon
doesnt want
the job.
Ganelon is
very angry at
Roland
because
Roland was
the one who
got him sent on
the dangerous
mission.
Ganelon
conspires with
Blancandrin the enemy,
Blancandran,
Ganelon
to ambush
Roland.
Ganelon has returned
and says that the pagans
will surrender and be
baptized after we return
to France.
King
Charlemagne
They send gifts and
hostages.
Oliver warns
Roland that
Ganelon is
scheming.
Roland is not
worried.
Oliver was right,
the pagans, led
by Marsillas,
attack Rolands
group.
Oliver begs Roland to blow his horn
(the Olipahnt) to call for Charlemagne
to help them. Roland refuses twice.
So how can we explain the
radical differences between the
plot of Roland and the history of
the conflict?
Roland Falls
at
Roncesvalles
How does understanding the
context help us?
Context Clue 1: Charlemagne
A portrait of
Charlemagne by
Albrecht Drer that
was painted several
centuries after
Charlemagne's
death.
1. Charlemagne
Charlemagne was regarded as the first great
Christian king.