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*Objective:
SWBAT
analyze the frame story
structure within the Wife
of Bath by Geoffrey
Chaucer in order to
reveal the relationship
between characters and
ideas about medieval
society as evidenced
through the students’
cornell notes.
*EQ:
How can we analyze the
Frame story structure through
the “Wife of Bath’s Prologue?”
by Geoffrey Chaucer?
*DO NOW/ Quickwrite:
*What do we currently know
about gender roles in the
Victorian era?
*(Students will use their prior
knowledge form the Victorian
era in order to connect it wit
their learning about Medieval
society within today’s
minilesson.)
*
*Objective:
SWBAT
analyze the frame story
structure within the Wife
of Bath by Geoffrey
Chaucer in order to
reveal the relationship
between characters and
ideas about medieval
society as evidenced
through the students’
cornell notes.
*EQ:
How can we analyze the
Frame story structure through
the “Wife of Bath’s Prologue?”
by Geoffrey Chaucer?
*DO NOW/ Quickwrite:
*What do we currently know
about gender roles in the
Victorian era?
*(Students will use their prior
knowledge form the Victorian
era in order to connect it wit
their learning about Medieval
society within today’s
minilesson.)
*
*Objective:
SWBAT
analyze the frame story
structure within the Wife
of Bath by Geoffrey
Chaucer in order to
reveal the relationship
between characters and
ideas about medieval
society as evidenced
through the students’
cornell notes.
*EQ:
How can we continue to
analyze the Frame story
structure through the “Wife of
Bath’s Prologue” by Geoffrey
Chaucer?
*DO NOW/ Quickwrite:
*-Who is the narrator of the
story and how do you know
this?
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Canterbury Tales
WRITING STYLES
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Often called the father of English poetry
Most scholars still wrote in Latin
Felt English lacked sophistication and had a limited
vocabulary
 Only local stories and ballads written in English
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He wrote in the vernacular or language of the
commoners Now known as Middle English
Allegory:
A story win which the character, settings, and events stand
for abstract or moral concepts.
 It has a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.
 Popular in the Middle Ages.
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Satire: witty language used to convey insult
Rhythmic pattern
Lack of alliteration
Best known for writing The Canterbury Tales, but
also had several other works as well
THE CANTERBURY TALES
Although the work was never completed, The Canterbury
Tales is considered one of the greatest works in the English
language
 The narrator meets 29 pilgrims at an inn and travels with
them to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury.
They decide to have a contest: whoever can tell the best
tale wins a dinner at the inn when they get back, courtesy
of the other travelers.
o Canterbury Tales can be considered “estates satire”
o Three “Estates” in European feudal society
– Peasants work (agricultural labor)
– Clergy pray
– Nobles fight (and rule)
 Begun: 1386
 Planned: 120 tales
 Completed: 22 and 2 fragments
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*Mini lesson: We will read the
*Objective:
SWBAT
analyze the frame story
structure within the Wife
of Bath by Geoffrey
Chaucer in order to
reveal the relationship
between characters and
ideas about medieval
society as evidenced
through the students’
cornell notes.
first two pages of the Wife of
Bath, in which you will receive
insight about the relationship
between the Wife of Bath and
the Friar, as well as the frame
story structure.
*Mini lesson:
*1) Frame story structure: It is when the pilgrims
converse with each other between the different tales.
For example, the telling of multiple plotlines within one
overarching story.
*-Idiom: A fixed expression that has either a literal or a
figurative meaning.
*Examples: Idioms such as “good as dead” in line 66 and
the king decides that the knight must die for his crime
in lines 63-67, and the law says that the decision must
be carried out. Readers can infer that the phrase means
the knight is certain to die.
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*-The WIFE OF BATH is the narrator of the story.
* Guided Practice: Write down lines within your cornell notes
which indicate the relationship between the Wife and the
Friar.
*
Topic: Analyze Story
Elements: Narrator
* Objective:
SWBAT make
inferences about the
Wife’s character from
the kinds of details that
she includes within her
tale as evidenced from
citing the text within
their cornell notes.
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* •RL.9-10.2
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EQ: How can we make
specific inferences about
the Wife’s character
based on the details that
she includes within her
tale?
*QUICKWRITE: What is
the punishment that
the knight receives and
explain why that is the
consequence of his
action?
*
Topic: Analyze Story
Elements: Narrator
* Objective:
SWBAT make
inferences about the
Wife’s character from
the kinds of details that
she includes within her
tale as evidenced from
citing the text within
their cornell notes.
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* •RL.9-10.2
* •RL.9-10.4
EQ: How can we make
specific inferences about
the Wife’s character
based on the details that
she includes within her
tale?
*QUICKWRITE:
*How would you
describe the Wife of
Bath? What makes her
an interesting
storyteller?
*
*Independent work:
*-In your cornell notes, write down this question:
*What inferences can you make about the
Wife’s style of storytelling based off of the
way in which she speaks?
*
*Independent work:
*-(Some anticipatory answers include that her
style is straightforward and to the point because
she states that the knight came plainly and
without embarrassment. She is self-assured and
does not try to make herself pleasing or
inoffensive to others)
* 12-04-15
*Guided Practice:
*How can you summarize the knight’s
experience as he travels the land
asking people what women want the
most. What does this part of the tale
tell you about the Wife of Bath
herself?
*Answer to question:
*-(This part of the story shows that
the Wife herself has traveled very far
and has met many people around the
world, so she has an idea of what
they want. Readers can infer that
she knows the answer to the Queen’s
question and will eventually reveal it
through her tale.)
*Independent work:
*-In the your graphic
organizers, write down
specific evidence describing
how you know that the Wife
is an educated woman and
whether the Wife’s traits as
revealed in the passage
make her a likable
character.
*
*Topic: Analysis of
Frame story
structure
*EQ:
How can we
continue to analyze
the Frame story
structure through
the “Wife of Bath’s
Prologue?” by
Geoffrey Chaucer?
*DO NOW/
Quickwrite:
*What do you believe
is the answer the
knight believes that
all women want? Do
you agree or
disagree with the
answer?
*Write question in
the questions
section:
*How can you
define the frame
story structure?
*Answer:
*Frame story structure
is when the pilgrims
converse with each
other between the
different tales. For
example, the telling of
multiple plotlines
within one overarching
story.
*interpret the following lines
*Guided Practice
question:
which are found in the Wife’s
prologue.
*The Wife of Bath is described
as knowing “the remedies for
love’s mischances,/ An art in
which she knew the oldest
dances.”
*What does this line suggest
about the Wife’s tale and how
does it relate to what line 79
is saying?
*-The Wife of Bath is
*Guided Practice described as knowing “the
QUESTION
ANSWER:
remedies for love’s
mischances,/ An art in which
she knew the oldest dances.”
The tale will discuss the
relationships between men
and women, she will share
what she knows about love
through the events of her
tale.)
*
*EQ:
*Topic: Analyze Story
Elements: Narrator
*Objective:
SWBAT
make inferences about
the Wife’s character
from the kinds of
details that she
includes within her tale
as evidenced from
citing the text within
their cornell notes.
How can we make
specific inferences about the
Wife’s character based on
the details that she includes
within her tale?
*DO NOW/ Quickwrite:
*Quick SBL quiz on vocabulary
words which were given to
students on 11-30-15.
*-Student must give a
definition and example of
the words such as preamble,
framestory structure, and
idiom.
*
*Independent work:
*-In your graphic organizers,
Independent work:
you will write down specific
evidence describing how you
know that the Wife is an
educated woman and
whether the Wife’s traits as
revealed in the passage make
her a likable character.
*
*Independent work:
*Some lines to look at
include:
Independent work:
*1)
*2)
*3)
*
*EQ:
*Topic: Analyze Story
Elements: Narrator
*Objective:
SWBAT
make inferences about
the Wife’s character
from the kinds of
details that she
includes within her tale
as evidenced from
citing the text within
their cornell notes.
How can we continue to
make specific inferences
about the Wife’s character
based on the details that she
includes within her tale?
* DO NOW/ Quickwrite:
*Please look at lines 163-175
and analyze what the forest
symbolizes in literature?
*
*EQ:
*Topic: Analyze Story
Elements: Narrator
*Objective:
SWBAT
make inferences about
the Wife’s character
from the kinds of
details that she
includes within her tale
as evidenced from
citing the text within
their cornell notes.
How can we continue to
make specific inferences
about the Wife’s character
based on the details that she
includes within her tale?
* DO NOW/ Quickwrite
Answer:
*The forest often represents a
place untouched by
civilization, the home of
spirits or other untamed
forces of nature.
*
*Independent Practice:
*Topic: Analyze Story
Elements: Foreshadowing
*Please write 3 to 5 sentences
on the following question:
*Objective: SWBAT analyze
the literary technique of
foreshadowing and how it
reflects the visual of the
story from the kinds of
details that she includes
within her tale as
evidenced from citing the
text within their cornell
notes.
*What do you predict about
the scene with the knight
based on the lines of 163175?
*
*Independent Practice:
*Topic: Analyze Story
Elements: Narrator
*Objective:
SWBAT
make inferences about
the Wife’s character
from the kinds of
details that she
includes within her tale
as evidenced from
citing the text within
their cornell notes.
-Please write 3 to 5 sentences
on the following question:
*What do you predict about the
scene with the knight based on
the lines of 163-175?
*Answer: -Students may state
that the wife’s tale will
contain mystical elements,
perhaps even an event that
cannot be explained logically.
*
*Independent Practice:
*Topic: Analyze Story
Elements: Narrator
*Objective:
SWBAT
make inferences about
the Wife’s character
from the kinds of
details that she
includes within her tale
as evidenced from
citing the text within
their cornell notes.
-Please write 3 to 5 sentences
on the following question:
*What do you predict about the
scene with the knight based on
the lines of 163-175?
*Answer: -Students may state
that the wife’s tale will
contain mystical elements,
perhaps even an event that
cannot be explained logically.
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12-10-15
Topic: Analyze Story
Elements: Foreshadowing
EQ: How can we
continue to make specific
inferences about the Wife’s
Objective: SWBAT analyze
character based on the
the literary technique of
foreshadowing and how it details that she includes
reflects the visual of the within her tale?
story from the kinds of
details that she includes
within her tale as
evidenced from citing the
text within their cornell
notes.
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CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.5
DO NOW: Quickwrite: The Wife of
Bath has had five husbands. In
the General Prologue, her
description indicates that
although the Wife is no longer
young, she still considers herself
to be marriage material. Why do
you think the Wife still considers
herself to be marriage material?
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12-10-15
Topic: Analyze Story
Elements: Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing:
Foreshadowing is a literary
device that gives clues to what
Objective: SWBAT analyze might happen later in the plot.
the literary technique of
foreshadowing and how it
reflects the visual of the
story from the kinds of
details that she includes
within her tale as
evidenced from citing the
text within their cornell
notes.
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CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.5
-The Wife uses foreshadowing
to really move her tale
forward. For example, “The
old woman forces the knight to
make a promise that she will
hold him to later in the tale.)
–I will then ask the students,
what is the effect of this
foreshadowing on readers?
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12-10-15
Topic: Analyze Story
Elements: Foreshadowing
Guided Practice: You will
respond with your answer to
the question posed in the
minilesson.
Objective: SWBAT analyze
the literary technique of
foreshadowing and how it
reflects the visual of the
story from the kinds of
details that she includes
within her tale as
evidenced from citing the
text within their cornell
notes.
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CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.5
-Answer:
Foreshadowing builds
suspense; readers want
to continue reading to
find out what the old
woman will exact from
the knight.
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12-10-15
Topic: Analyze Story
Elements: Foreshadowing
Independent Practice:
You will review lines
163-231
for
the
answer
 Objective: SWBAT analyze
the literary technique of to this questions such
foreshadowing and how it
reflects the visual of the as noting specific
story from the kinds of
details that will help
details that she includes
the you visualize this
within her tale as
evidenced from citing the
scene.
Please
write
3
text within their cornell
notes.
to five sentence son
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Literacy.CCRA.R.1
Do you believe that the
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CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.3
Wife’s
tale
would
be
a
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Literacy.CCRA.R.5
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12-10-15
Topic: Analyze Story
Elements: Foreshadowing
Objective: SWBAT analyze
the literary technique of
foreshadowing and how it
reflects the visual of the
story from the kinds of
details that she includes
within her tale as
evidenced from citing the
text within their cornell
notes.
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CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.5
Possible independent
practice answer:
-Some answers that the
students may say are that
it is a faced pace,
dramatic narrative,
camera action in filming
the scenes, such as a wide
shot or zoon in, and
outlining the key
movements of the scenes.
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12-11-15
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Objective: SWBAT analyze
how the Knight’s character
has changed throughout EQ: How can we analyze the
the text and that change
change in the knight’s character
reflects the theme of the
text as evidenced through and how it reflects the theme of
their compare and contrastthe text?
t-chart on the knight’s
change in behavior.
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• CCSS.ELALiteracy.CCRA.R.5
Topic: Analyze Story Elements:
Theme
DO NOW/ Quickwrite:
What kind of answer did the
knight give the Queen about what
women want? Do you believe his
answer stills holds true in our day
and age?
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12-11-15
Mini lesson:
Objective: SWBAT analyze -Theme:
how the Knight’s character
has changed throughout
Chaucer uses the individual tales
the text and that change
reflects the theme of the to convey ideas about life and the
text as evidenced through human condition.
their compare and contrastt-chart on the knight’s
-The behavior of the characters is
change in behavior.
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often used to communicate
themes about human nature. This
is particularly true when a
character undergoes a major
change.
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12-11-15
Mini lesson:
Objective: SWBAT analyze -Theme:
how the Knight’s character
has changed throughout
We will reread lines 179-187,
the text and that change
reflects the theme of the looking at the way in which the
text as evidenced through knight responds to the old
their compare and contrastwoman. Then I will have students
t-chart on the knight’s
read lines 220-245, looking for a
change in behavior.
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change in the knight’s attitude
toward the old woman.
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12-11-15
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Objective: SWBAT analyze
how the Knight’s character
has changed throughout
the text and that change
reflects the theme of the
text as evidenced through
their compare and contrast
t-chart on the knight’s
change in behavior.
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Independent work:
-You will describe the
contrast between the
knight’s attitude towards
the old woman earlier in
the tale (lines 179-187)
and his attitude now (lines
220-245).