This amazing anthology contains the types of stories popular in the medieval period. The Canterbury pilgrims represent diverse social backgrounds. Written in Middle English, these tales form a novel in structure and poetry in style.
Students gain experience with interpreting satire, analyzing character, identifying setting, and recognizing narrative and stylistic devices. They perform research, compose creative writing pieces and essays, and dramatize and role-play. They analyze the frame story. Students develop categorizing skills.
This revision increases attention to changes in the evolution of the English language and to characterization throughout the Prologue. Moreover, it provides outlets for creative writing. Focus is given to The Pardoner’s Tale and The Nun’s Priest’s Tale in individual lessons.
Supplementary materials include a quiz and a test with answer keys, writing topics, and a supplemental reading list.
