Teacher’s Name – Tiffany Fisher
Date – April 9, 2001
Title of Unit (if lesson is part of a unit) – Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Title of Lesson – The Pilgrims (for a junior/senior level class)
Previous Assignment (if any) – None – starting new unit
Objective(s) (what do you want them to learn) – 1) Students will be able to distinguish
Chaucer’s writing and the characteristics of the time period in which he writes by written
assignments and in-class discussions. 2) Students will be able to read work analytically
by journaling as they read.
Materials – 1) Texts 2)Material for taking/making notes
Activities (in class) – Teacher will hand out a biography on the life of Geoffrey Chaucer.
Students will read the handout silently. Teacher will lecture to highlight the important
information to be remembered for unit test. Teacher will hand out the KWL. Teacher
will provoke questions and comments by students as well as add own in order to make
students aware of what kind of information is being looked for to fill in the KWL.
Teacher will lecture on the Middle English writing style as students take notes. Questions
being asked would resemble: What do you know about the CT? What do you think the
CT are about? What is important about reading the CT? Teacher will read a background
and brief summary of The Canterbury Tales. Continue to fill out a KWL about the text
after completion of the above sections. Depending on the participation in the discussion,
I expect these activities to last the 50 minute class period.
Evaluation (how do you know they learned it) – At the end each day the students will
hand in the KWL and it will be a written documentation of What they Know, What they
Want to know, and What they Learned. Information about the material will be included
on a final test at the end of the unit.
Assignment (out of class) – Read the prologue section on the first pilgrim. Be prepared
to discuss the material. Take notes in a journal as you read which includes questions,
what you understand the text to say, and anything you want to remember to share with
the class. The journal should be thoughtful and demonstrate that the reading has been
completed.