The Canterbury Tales
This amazing anthology contains the types of stories popular in the medieval period. The Canterbury Tales' pilgrims represent diverse social backgrounds. Written in Middle English, these tales form a novel in structure and poetry in style.
About the Series:
Novel/Drama curriculum units contain complete lesson plans with preliminary and follow-up work, teacher notes with plot summary, background, and rationale, ready-to-use worksheets, and suggested answers for student questions. These study guides encourage the development of thinking, reading, speaking, research, and writing skills as well as critical thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
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Literary Form
British Poetry
Student Activities
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.
Ethical Values
- Compassion
- Faith
- Justice
- Truth