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Medieval England: Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Build historical background for your medieval literature class with this presentation. Focusing on the characteristics of feudal society and religious influence, the slides are a good basis for starting your medieval literature class -...
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Chaucer: Canterbury Tales

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
A good addition to a class discussion of Canterbury Tales, this presentation guides students through a thorough plot summary of the Knight's tale and the Miller's tale. The final fourteen slides include passages from the Miller's tale....
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Chaucer: Canterbury Tales General Prologue

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Perhaps a companion to a class discussion about the general prologue (Parson and Summoner) of Canterbury Tales, this presentation simply presents students with lines 477-714 of the text. No additional commentary or annotation is included...
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Chaucer's Wife of Bath

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
A thorough and well-designed resource for older students, this instructional activity focuses on Chaucer's character the Wife of Bath from his classic novel, The Canterbury Tales. As a way of understanding Chaucer's complex...
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Chaucer: Text and Contexts

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Guide your class through a lecture or lecture series on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales with this presentation. First summarizing the Knight's Tale and the Miller's Tale, the slides then provide the text for the Miller's Tale, linking...
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Chaucer: Text and Contexts

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Take your class through the Wife of Bath's Tale from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales with this slide show. First summarizing the events of this section, the presentation goes on to provide the supporting text for each plot point, from the...
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Writing Application: The Canterbury Tales

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students read stories from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and create their own tale. In this writing applications lesson plan, students read the tales and analyze the specific details that Chaucer use. Students work in groups...
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The Teller of the Tale, Part 3

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students 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 prepare to...
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Camp Canterbury-creating a Personnel Guide for Chaucer's Characters

For Teachers 12th
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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The Teller of the Tale, Part 2

For Teachers 8th - 12th
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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Multicultural Canterbury Pilgrimage

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners create travel brochures that detail various people and places that are encountered on the way to Chaucer's Canterbury.
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Chaucer: Text and Contexts

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Compare the Wife of Bath's text to the biblical verses she references. Much of Chaucer's Wife of Bath's words are direct reflections of bible verses; this presentation matches the Old English to the biblical references and helps explain...
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Chaucer

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers 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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Survivor Vs. Canterbury Tales

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders participate in activities that compare and contrast The Canterbury Tales with the television show, Survivor. They write a compare and contrast essay, and create a festival table and PowerPoint presentation.
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Chaucer's "The Prioress' Tale"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
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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Literature and Humor

For Teachers Higher Ed
From Canterbury Tales to The Odd Couple, this presentation details the different treatments of humor in different literary formats. Numerous authors and works of literature are represented here as examples of satire, irony, comedy, and...
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English Literature - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Everything you wanted to know about the history of English literature and language but were afraid to ask. From Beowulf to Canterbury Tales, the Knights of the Round Table to Robin Hood, Addison, Fielding, Shakespeare, Swift, and many...
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Chaucer's Wife of Bath

For Teachers 9th - 12th
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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Thomas a Becket

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students se of online resources including historical information from the city of Canterbury and a RealPlayer movie about the murder of Thomas a Becket,to learn of the history behind the Canterbury Tales pilgrimage.
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Making the Old New Again

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
How does a new version of a Shakespearean play change in the adaptation process? Use this New York Times' Learning Network lesson to consider texts that have been produced in different media. Middle schoolers examine the latest version...
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Irony

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Using examples from Socrates to Johnny Carson, this slideshow presents your students with the history and definition of dramatic irony, satire, situational irony, and tragic irony. This presentation would be useful in a language arts...
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History of English

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Did you know that in Japan you can drink "Poccari Sweat"? Ever heard of "Intervocalic fricatives become contrastive?" Sure. All this and more in a presentation that traces the history of English before England, in England including Old...
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Transparency Review

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students investigate and distinguish between primary and secondary sources when analyzing works of literature. They present their information on transparencies that are displayed to the class.
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History of English

For Teachers Higher Ed
Providing both a history of English before England (Sino-Tibetan, Finno-Ugric, Hamido-Semitic, Indo-European) and a history of English in England, this presentation includes charts and many examples of the changes in the English language...

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