Description
British Literature: The Canterbury Tales Task Cards and Student Assignment
This differentiated activity is intended to get students excited about literature in a creative way. Students will create trading cards featuring Pilgrims from The Canterbury Tales.
-The activity is flexible and can be adapted to fit the needs of each student and each class.
-Begin the activity by talking to the students about the Prologue, and some exciting details.
-minds-on activity
-study guide
This Teaching Pack Includes:
*ZIP FILE FOLDER*
-11 literary device, terms to know cards
Allegory, Irony, Satire, Allusions, Pilgrims, Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas A Becket, iambic pentameter, feudalism…
-10 Question / Task Cards for 12 of the tales. Questions are multiple choice and based on the common core standards for English Language Arts
-Colorful, detailed, and fun…23 Pilgrim Cards! They are very colorful and list a physical description, job description, their motives / interests, and Chaucer’s opinion.
The 23 Pilgrims are:
Host
Knight
Squire
Yeoman (Cannon Yeoman)
Nun (Prioress)
Monk
Friar
Merchant
Oxford Cleric (Clerk, Student)
Sergeant at the Law (Lawyer)
Franklin
Cook
Skipper (Shipman, Sailor)
Doctor (Physician)
Wife of Bath
Parson
Plowman
Miller
Manciple
Reeve
Summoner
Pardoner
Nun’s Priest
-Pilgrim Presentation Assignment
Trading Cards Assignment
Template (just added it as a PPT file so your setudents can open it and edit!)
Rubric
The cards come 4 to a sheet. In color. Can be printed in grayscale, too…and still look great! Laminate, put them on a key ring, in a case, or decorate a board with them.
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