Canterbury Tales Student-Led Lessons Honors English 4

You (the students of Ms. Pajic’s and Ms. Rich’s class) are going to be TEACHING EACH OTHER the Prologue of The Canterbury Tales.

 You will create a 12 minute presentation to deliver to your classmates WITH AN INTERACTIVE, ENGAGING HANDOUT TO GIVE TO THE CLASS.  Have a visual aid for your presentation: i.e. POWERPOINT or PREZI.

 Ask a DISCUSSION QUESTION after your presentation.  A “how” or “why” question, not a “who, what or where” question

 While you are presenting, you are the TEACHER. Please teach your students thoroughly/clearly so that you prepare them to do wonderfully on their future test on The Canterbury Tales.

 You will be assigned a character (or characters) from The Prologue (p ). It is your responsibility to become best friends with your character (or characters).  As your character’s best friend, you must know everything there is to know about them—know them inside and out!

*How do you become a character’s best friend?*

o READ about your BEST FRIEND in the PROLOGUE o Your presentation needs to be CONTENT- PACKED and exhibit lots of:  TEXTUAL EVIDENCE  Should I say “TEXTUAL EVIDENCE” one more time???  WITH PAGE AND LINE CITATIONS

If you use outside information from the internet in your presentation (not required) AN MLA CITATION AND WORKS CITED IS REQUIRED.

o Use textual evidence to support the claims made about your character(s) and include evidence of:  IRONY that surrounds your character(s)  Types of Irony to look for in the text:  Situational Irony  Verbal Irony, etc…

 CHARACTERIZATION of your character(s). Examples of characterization elements: o Personality/Values/Morality o Dialogue o Occupation  Where are they in the social scale? What is their estate? o Appearance  Where are they in the social scale? What is their estate?  Are their clothes/physical appearance symbolic in any way?

o Use textual evidence to evaluate and explain:  How Chaucer’s use of irony and characterization make a political/social/religious/other commentary o Is there a lesson surrounding the character(s)? o How does the character(s) fit into the ESTATE SATIRE?  How does Chaucer’s treatment of his characters portray his opinions on social class?