Day 4

Chaucer's Poetry Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

  1. 1

    Satirizing Love

    Kind of Activity:

    Performance

    Objective:

    Students will creatively interpret aspects of the text in an original production.

    Common Core Standards:

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.6 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.3 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.4

    Structure:

    For this exercise, the teacher should break up the class into 3 groups of at least 4 people (the groups can have different numbers of students if so desired). These groups will work on creating a short satirical skit of the norms or practices of modern romance, as Chaucer did with courtly love in his poem "The Parliament of...

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