Teacher Guide

Chaucer's Poetry Lesson Plan

Notes to the Teacher

For the sake of having completely up-to-date spelling, this Lesson Plan makes use of the translated versions of Geoffrey Chaucer's poems available on the Poetry in Translation website. The exception to this is "Prologue" of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, which is drawn from the 2003 Penguin Classics edition of the text.

The thought questions in this lesson plan provide material and ideas that students can use to write short original essays and to develop their powers of analysis. The questions provided for the final paper are most suitable for student essays. For the sake of improving students' written expression, teachers should encourage students to write on topics that have been...

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