Lesson Plan #2: The Canterbury Tales

Sample 2 of Prologue Assignment next class. BetterLesson helps teachers and leaders make growth towards professional goals. Sign Up Log In. Unit 5 Unit 1: Introduction and Background for Course Literature Unit 2: The King Arthur Legend Unit 5: Smart Phone Literature Project Unit 9: The Victorians Unit Wife of Bath Day 4 of 4. Lesson Overview and Note to Teachers. Peer Warm-Up and Gallery Walk. Prologue Day 1 of 2 Add to Favorites 32 teachers like this lesson.

Big Idea "If we don't accept ourselves for who we are and where we've come from, who will? Include Shakespeare as well as other authors. By the end of grade 12, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of the grades CCR text complexity band independently and proficiently. Sample 1 - Prologue Assignment.

Peer Warm-Up and Gallery Walk 32 minutes. Peer Review and Gallery Walk.

Student Work - Peer Warm-Up. Selected Lines from Prologue.

Sample 1 of Prologue Assignment. Sample 2 of Prologue Assignment. The Fight with Grendel. Traditional teaching alone does not always address their need to customize their learning styles. Teachers need to construct assignments that help students use technology to develop customization skills. This follow-up assignment to the reading of Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales gives students the opportunity to work in a collaborative setting with a technology that they may be familiar with, but may not know how to use to its best advantage.

Learning Objectives

It shows students how to explicate text and research historical background while creating group wikis. Developing these wikis allows students to become experts and share information while learning to work as part of a team.

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Students use this interactive to fill out a group profile for their character in Canterbury Tales. Canterbury Tales Wiki Worksheet: Students use this worksheet to guide them as they examine the text and the characters. Criteria for Canterbury Tales Wiki: Students and Teachers can use this criteria as a guide for the project and to assist with grading. In her article "Contemporary Literacy: Essential Skills for the 21 st Century," Janet Murray discusses the importance of teaching students the skills they will need to be successful whether they continue with their education or enter the job market.

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