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Classroom Activities for Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Three lessons based on "The Wife of Bath's Prologue" from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales offer scholars an opportunity to examine literary satire, medieval attitudes towards women, and the form and function of a frame story.
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Chaucer's Wife of Bath
A thorough and well-designed resource for older students, this lesson focuses on Chaucer's character the Wife of Bath from his classic novel, The Canterbury Tales. As a way of understanding Chaucer's complex characterization and...
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The Canterbury Tales Quiz
For this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Playing Chaucer's Pilgrims
Students dress like Chaucer's pilgrims in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales and act out a skit revealing Chaucer's description of each pilgrim.
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Writing Application: The Canterbury Tales
Students read stories from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and create their own tale. In this writing applications lesson, students read the tales and analyze the specific details that Chaucer use. Students work in groups to...
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The Canterbury Tales Study Questions & Essay Topics
In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 6 short answer and essay questions about Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Students may check some of their answers online.
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Chaucer's Wife of Bath
Students analyze Chaucer's portrayal of the Wife of Bath in The Canterbury Tales. Students prepare class reports on the institution of marriage and the place of women in the Medieval society.
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Chaucer's "The Prioress' Tale"
Students examine Anti-Semitism in literature. In this Chaucer lesson, students review the concept of blood libel and then identify and analyze the Anti-Semitic message of "The Prioress' Tale."
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Chaucer introduction
Twelfth graders make connections between past and present, relevance of studying Chaucer.
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Chaucer Web Quest
In this literature web quest worksheet, students research online the answers to the questions about Chaucer. Students answer 4 questions.
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Students work in groups to imagine, research and simulate a dinner party involving an author, a fictional character, and a significant historical figure as dinner guests. The activity uses Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the time...
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The Teller of the Tale, Part 3
Young scholars practice use of volume, stress, pacing, enunciation, eye contact, and gestures needed to meet the needs of the audience when presenting their own tales based on Chaucer. They receive teacher and student feedback and...
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Details and Observations IQ or the Eyes Have it
Fourth graders study Chaucer as a master of details. Then, they create a short story linking unrelated details into a logical plot with a clear setting and established characters. This lesson plan has some excellent worksheets attached!
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Chaucer's Characters in The General Prologue
Twelfth graders explore the characters in The General Prologue. They describe the characters and their occupations and their lands of origin. Students organize the characters using Excel spreadsheets.
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Camp Canterbury-creating a Personnel Guide for Chaucer's Characters
Twelfth graders study the character sketches in Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
They discuss the biography of Sir Thomas-a-Becket and his historical significance in the Medieval Era. They define a pilgrimage and brainstorm...
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Multicultural Canterbury Pilgrimage
Young scholars create travel brochures that detail various people and places that are encountered on the way to Chaucer's Canterbury.
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The Teller of the Tale, Part 2
Students discuss character types and their qualities. They select two characters and write about their dress, speech, habits, attitudes and beliefs. They write a monologue as the characters presenting a moral theme.
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Chaucer
Students discuss characterization in "The Canterbury Tales". They examine professions that could be held by a travelers. They write a script for a new person on the trip. They may also write a poetic version for the script.
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Famous Britons 1
In this research activity, students match 12 famous Britons with the year in which they were born. People include John Lennon, William Caxton, and Geoffrey Chaucer.
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A Changing Society
Seventh graders examine Chaucer's work about the medieval times. In groups, 7th graders imagine what modern activities could replace some tasks used in medieval times.
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Cliff Notes for The Canterbury Tales: Quiz
In this Canterbury Tales quiz interactive worksheet, 9th graders answer 12 multiple choice questions about the tales with immediate online feedback.
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Cliff Notes for The Canterbury Tales: Essay Questions
For this Canterbury Tales essay questions worksheet, 9th graders answer 5 comprehension questions about several different tales.
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Canterbury Tales, "The General Prologue"
In these Canterbury Tales worksheets, students complete a chart of analysis about the pilgrims in the literature. Students also analyze the best and worst pilgrims.
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Famous Britons 3
In this research activity, students match 20 famous Britons with their principal occupations. People include John Lennon, William Caxton, and Geoffrey Chaucer.