Canterbury+Tales



[|Biography] Geoffrey Chaucer:
 * Born between about 1340 in London; his father was a wine merchant
 * Achieved fame as an author, alchemist, philosopher, and astronomer
 * Chaucer also maintained an __active__ __career__ in the civil service as a [|bureaucrat], [|courtier], and [|diplomat]
 * Chaucer is a crucial figure in developing the legitimacy of the Middle English at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin.
 * Wrote the Canterbury Tales betwen 1385-1389 and died before he could finish them.

**Medieval Society**  [|Life and Times]   [|Introduction of Medieval Life]   [|Three Orders] ** Aristocracy: Those who fought ** ** [|Life of the Aristocracy] ** ** [|Armor of Knights] ** ** Clergy: Those who prayed ** ** [|Clergy and Society] ** ** [|Life of the Clergy] ** ** [|Clothing of the Clergy] ** ** Commoners: Those who worked ** ** [|Life of the Peasantry] ** ** [|Village Clothing] ** ** [|Women in Society] ** **Issues of Society:** **[|Great Famine/ Black Death]** **[|Famines]** **[|Bubonic Plague]**

Life in Medieval Towns: [|Cities and Towns] ** Vocabulary for Glencoe Literature Textbook ** [|Vocabulary Activity]
 * Canterbury Tales: ** **Literary Conventions:**
 * 1)  Solicitious
 * 2) Estimable
 * 3) __Discreet__
 * 4) Renown
 * 5) Disdainful
 * 6) Prevarication

** [|Heroic couplet] ** ** [|Iambic pentameter] ** ** [|Meter in Children's Poetry] ** media type="custom" key="12700880" ** [|Satire] ** In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement. Satire is meant to be funny but also it is used for social commentary. ** [|Irony] ** ** [|Frame story] ** [|Narration and Structure]

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Tabard __Inn__ [|History]

Characterization: [|Personalities in Canterbury Tales] [|Analysis of Prologue and Characters] [|Further Analysis of Pilgrims in the Prologue] [|Sparknotes: Prologue] [|Wife of Bath] [|Pardoner's Tale] [|Knight Through the Man of Law] [|Franklin Through the Pardoner] [|The Squire] [|Courtly Love]
 * Feudal System: ** Knight, Squire, Yeoman, Franklin, Reeve, Miller, and Plowman are members of a disappearing feudal system based on land.


 * Clergy: ** Parson, Summoner, Monk, Prioress, Friar, Pardoner, and the Oxford Cleric are all members of the Catholic Church, the most dominant institution of the Middle Ages


 * Rising Urban Middle Class: ** __Doctor__, Sergeant at Law Manciple, Merchant, Skipper, Cook, Wife of Bath, and the host


 * Images:**



Characterization Charts:

Presentation Critique: Student Forms [|Form for Analysis of Presentations] Graphic Organizer Activity: [|Bubbl.us graphic organizers]

**PERSONAL EXAMPLE** :  

Mickey Carboni:

Erica Pletcher: 
 * Skipper:**

Tyler Kennedy: 
 * Friar**:

Steven Ruggiere: 

Brittany Martin: 

Danny Cericola: []
 * SERGEANT-AT-LAW**

Emma Venditta: 

Mackenzie Lane: 
 * MERCHANTS:**

Tevin Andrews: 

Aunyae Gustus: Cook 
 * Cook:**

Katie Blosveren: Franklin []

Ben Astarb:
 * Summoner:**

Amara: Nun Danielle Pohland: []
 * Parson:**
 * KNIGHT:**

Kelly Colbert: Knight