24 Feb: Wife of Bath, Poem Project

1. Journal: Choose 2 Wife of Bath vocabulary words to illustrate and write a sentence about.
2. "The Tale of the Falcon" Quiz
3. Packet page 11 notes (Lit Terms, Chaucer, Canterbury Tales)
4. Literary Terms (add "couplets" and "allusion")
   Dynamic characters – change during the story. Decisions these characters make, things they say, or their thoughts reflect these changes. (Guy Montag, Equality)
   Static characters – remain unchanged during a story. (Mildred, Captain Beatty)
   Couplets – 2 lines in a row that rhyme
   allusion – a reference to something that is known from literature, history, religion
5. Geoffrey Chaucer (lived during 1300s)
   **Author of The Canterbury Tales
   **"Father of English poetry"
   **Wrote in the vernacular (everyday language), Middle English. Most literature was written in French at that time, so Chaucer writing in Middle English helped to increase respect for the English language.
6. The Canterbury Tales
   Pilgrimage: journey to a sacred/religious place
   **Setting of the "big" story: London, Canterbury, the road from London to Canterbury
   **People are going on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. On the way & back, they have a storytelling contest. This is the frame that binds the tales together. The smaller stories are the stories they tell for the contest.
   **Chaucer opens The Canterbury Tales with a prologue. He explains what they are doing and gives a description of each pilgrim.
   **Some of these pilgrims include a knight, squire, nun, priest, monk, farmer, student, and
7. Students listened to part of a modern rap version of the first part of the prologue. The first part is in Middle English. What is being described in the modern part?
8. Students identified words they are familiar with in the Middle English version of part of "The Prologue"
9. The Canterbury Tales:The Sequel
   Read slide 1 (slide # in bottom corner).
   Identify the rhyme scheme
   Summarize what it is about in the summary box.
   Can you find any metaphors?
   Illustrate the scene &/or images from the passage.
   Who is the speaker of the poem? Who is "I"?
   Your section of the sequel
   On the back of slide 1 is your individual section of the poem.
   Read it. Summarize it. Identify any metaphors. Illustrate it.
   Take 15 minutes to finish this slide.
10. Creative Writing Assignment. Quiz grade, due Monday, March 2
    **It is 10 years in the future. You and a group of people are traveling together like Chaucer’s pilgrims were.
    **Write a description of yourself as a person on this journey.
    **The description must:
    ----be in poem form
    ----be written in couplets
    ----be at least 10 lines with at least 7 words per line.
    ----include at least 2 metaphors. Underline the metaphors.
    **Title your poem.
    **Write your poem inside the frame.
    **Decorate the frame to illustrate your poem.
11. "The Wife of Bath’s Tale" Page 774. We read the first two pages and will pick up there on Thursday.