Complete set of pre-reading ideas and activities for introducing your students to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.  Directly from our The Canterbury Tales Literature Guide

This massive Pre-Reading Pack includes 40 pages of material including:
List of 15 pre-reading prompts/ideas
Monarchy Scavenger Hunt
Article and corresponding questions on Illuminated Texts
Biography and corresponding questions on author Geoffrey Chaucer
Article and corresponding questions on Genre-Poetry, Narrative, and Satire
Article and corresponding questions on Unreliable Narrator
Article and corresponding questions on Structure: Frames
Article and corresponding questions on Middle English and the Great Vowel Shift
Article and corresponding questions on Life in the 1300s, including notes on the Catholic Church, the Black Death, John Wycliffe and the Lollards, the Hundred Years' War, and the Poll Tax and Peasant Revolt of 1381.
Article and corresponding questions on Pilgrimages
Article and corresponding activity on Biblical and Mythological Allusions
Article and activity on Place and Time
A complete list of Allusions, defined and/or explained
Complete Answer Key
Note: The purchase of this item in addition to the complete Literature Guide will result in a duplicate purchase.

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