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Weekly Overview:
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Unit Description: The Medieval Period
The Canterbury Tales
Essential Questions: What is irony? What has the power to corrupt? Do men understand women? Has human nature changed over the centuries?
Resources/Materials: Literature books, study guides, crossword puzzles
Standards/Benchmarks/GLEs: ELA-6-H2, ELA-7-H1, ELA-1-H1, ELA-2-H3, ELA-3-H2, ELA-3-H3 |
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Objectives: |
TSWBAT:
1. Prepare for the ACT by doing practice activities.
2. Read and analyze an exemplum.
3. Recognize the three types of irony in a story.
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TSWBAT:
1. Prepare for the ACT by doing practice activities.
2. Answer questions about student presentations.
3. Answer questions about what he/she has read.
4. Complete crossword puzzles using vocabulary words.
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TSWBAT:
1. Prepare for the ACT by doing practice activities.
2. Identify the narrator of a story.
3. Discuss the gulf between men and women.
4. Read and analyze a story.
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TSWBAT:
1. Prepare for the ACT by doing practice activities.
2. Review what he/she has read.
3. Read and analyze a story from Medieval times.
4. Determine what is important to the narrator based upon his/her choice of story.
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TSWBAT:
1. Prepare for the ACT by doing practice activities.
2. Answer questions about what he/she has read.
3. Discuss how medieval society compares with modern times.
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Student Learning Activities:
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1. Students will do the bell work individually, then the whole class will go over the correct answers.
2. Define exemplum and review definition of irony.
3. Discuss instances of corruption in the modern world.
4. Call upon students to read and analyze the Pardoner’s Prologue on pp. 166-168.
5. Call upon students to read and analyze the Pardoner’s Tale on pp. 169-176 of the literature book.
6. Discuss the moral of the tale and instances of irony in it.
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1. Students will do the bell work individually, then the whole class will go over the correct answers.
2. Students will work on crossword puzzles, study guides, and questions about the Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale individually.
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1. Students will do the bell work individually, then the whole class will go over the correct answers.
2. Collect homework from last week.
3. Review what we learned about the Pardoner from his prologue and tale.
4. Poll students on what they think of the battle of the sexes.
5. Give background info on The Wife of Bath not found in literature book.
6. Call upon students to begin reading and analyzing The Wife of Bath’s prologue and Tale on pp. 180-192.
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1. Students will do the bell work individually, then the whole class will go over the correct answers.
2. Review portion of the Wife of Bath’s Tale read yesterday.
3. Continue reading and analyzing the Wife of Bath’s tale.
4. Discuss what reading this tale teaches us about Wife of Bath.
5. If any time remains, students may work on their proposals.
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1. Students will do the bell work individually, then the whole class will go over the correct answers.
2. Collect proposals.
3. Lead a whole class discussion on how medieval society compares with modern society. Have people changed since then? How?
4. After the discussion, students will work on the questions about the Wife of Bath’s Tale on p. 193 of the literature book.
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Homework: |
Finish crossword puzzles and study guide from last week
Research proposal due Friday |
Crossword puzzles and study guide due tomorrow |
Finish questions 1-9 on p. 177 of lit book |
Proposals due tomorrow |
Test on Canterbury Tales--Thursday |
