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, dramatize and role-play, and analyze the frame story. With this curriculum unit, students will develop categorizing skills.

Supplementary materials include a quiz and a test with answer keys, writing topics, and a supplemental reading list.

Literary Form

• British Poetry

21st-Century Skills

• Collaboration
• Critical thinking
• Social and cross-cultural skills

Overview

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.

Includes 10 lesson plans and 24 handouts.

Grades 9–12. High school. Reproducible. 70 pages.

Book Download: PDF. Adobe® Reader® required to view PDF.

Print Book: Spiral-bound. 8 x 11 inches.