We shared our modern prologues–these were fabulous! I really enjoyed all of them.
We also did an oral reading and discussion of The Pardoner’s Tale.
Tomorrow I will give a test on The Canterbury Tales Prologue and The Pardoner’s Tale. I will also check notebooks and look at your note cards.
Next week will be devoted to finishing the research paper.
In groups, students continued writing their modern-day prologues. They also completed some fun Canterbury Tales activities (pilgrim houses riddle, seven deadly sins, name that pilgrim, etc.)
We are running a little behind, but we will definitely share our prologues in class tomorrow. We will also do an oral reading of The Pardoner’s Tale. The test has been moved to Friday. I will also be checking your note cards on Friday.
We finished the pilgrim presentations today (with the exception of the Skipper and the Pardoner–the students who covered these characters were absent). In pairs, students looked at selected discussion questions following The Prologue and presented their answers to the rest of the class. We began an assignment in pairs at the end of class; we’ll continue working on the assignment tomorrow.
The assignment is to create a modern day prologue similar to Chaucer’s. Students will create at least five “character types” found in modern society and describe each character’s personality, actions, appearance, and so on. Students should attempt to use iambic pentameter and rhyming couplets.
A test on The Prologue and The Pardoner’s Tale will be given on Thursday.
Today students presented their paperbag puppets and summaries based on the pilgrims in The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. Two new discussion questions for this week have been posted for this week. Twenty-five note cards are due on Friday, February 1.
We spent our class time in the library, working on note cards. Twenty-five note cards are due by next Friday, February 1. The following week will be devoted exclusively to the organization and drafting of the research paper.
We’ll be sharing our Canterbury Tales pilgims on Monday, January 28. Progress reports will also go home, and these should be signed by parents and returned to me on Tuesday.
There was no school today because the heat was not working anywhere on campus.
No school! Yippee!
Today we reviewed our Senior Project topics and discussed methods for making bibliography cards and note cards.
This assignment will count as a test grade. You may earn 10 extra points for creating a second character. Your second character may be any character you choose. You may earn up to 110 for this assignment.
The Knight (and the Yeoman for extra credit)–Bianca
The Squire–George
The Nun (and the Monk for extra credit)–Victoria
The Friar (and the Cook for extra credit)–Amanda
The Merchant (and the Miller for extra credit)–Sandra
The Franklin (and the Oxford Cleric for extra credit)–Misha
The Lawyer (and the Wife of Bath for extra credit)–Amelia
The Skipper (and the Summoner for extra credit)–Julie
The Doctor–Daphne
The Wife of Bath (and the Nun for extra credit)–Michelle
The Parson (and the Miller for extra credit)–Dani
The Plowman (and the Squire for extra credit)–Rainey
The Reeve (and the Manciple for extra credit)–Kelsey
The Summoner (and the Wife of Bath for extra credit)–Alysha
The Pardoner (and the Franklin for extra credit)–Justin
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