Chaucer's Poetry Lesson Plan

For this section, students should read the entirety of the "Prologue" of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, in Middle English and/or Modern English.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.1

   Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.2

   Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.3

   Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple...