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Primary
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales: The Nun's Priest's Tale[pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a 12-page PDF of "The Nun's Priest's Tale" from Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
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Unit Plan
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Introduction to Practical Criticism

For Students 11th - 12th
An in-depth learning module in literary criticism. Students read and listen to a poem by Sir Thomas Wyatt and an excerpt from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and analyze their structure and meaning. Includes multiple-choice quizzes.
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Lesson Plan
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: The Canterbury Tales: Reading Chaucer Across Time

For Students 9th - 10th
Through a focus on digitized images of manuscripts and print editions of Chaucer's work, students will develop their understanding of how his poetry has been produced and read over the centuries.
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Lesson Plan
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Chaucer's 'The Merchant's Tale': Marriage & Relationships

For Students 9th - 10th
'The Merchant's Tale' can be viewed as one of the 'marriage' tales in Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales". Students can use this series of activities to explore how Chaucer portrays marriage, men and women, and relationships through the...
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Website
Harvard University

The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Main Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Geoffrey Chaucer Page provides materials for Harvard's Chaucer classes. It provides a wide range of texts and translations of Chaucer's works along with critical articles from various perspectives and general...
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Handout
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Chaucer's Wife of Bath

For Teachers 9th - 10th
These lesson plans, focusing on Chaucer's Wife of Bath, encourage students to explore the roles of women and the views of marriage during the Middle Ages. Website includes several links to further related information.
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eBook
University of Michigan

Making of America: Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims, Retold by K. L. Bates

For Students 9th - 10th
Digitization of "Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims," an early twentieth-century illustrated version of Chaucer's famous tales.
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Handout
Other

Goucher English / General Prologue

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, prepared for college English literature students, deals with the following aspects of Chaucer's General Prologue from "The Canterbury Tales": Genre, Form, Characters, Summary, Issues, and General Sources. Also contains...
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Primary
Other

Librarius: From the Canterbury Tales: General Prologue

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales with the Middle English and Modern English in a side-by-side format, and provides a glossary for unfamiliar terms.
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Primary
Virginia Tech

The Canterbury Tales: Prologue to Pardoner's Tale

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text to the Prologue to the "Pardoner's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
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Lesson Plan
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Geoffrey Chaucer

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Have your students ever read any of Geoffrey Chaucer's work? Check out this comprehensive site featuring links to several sites focused on his life and "The Canterbury Tales."
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PPT
TES Global

Tes: The Pardoner's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this PowerPoint lesson, each student will learn how to write a letter that requests a pardon for a personal mistake made. Each student will reply to a letter from a classmate and serve in the...
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Unit Plan
The Best Notes

The Best Notes: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a complete online study guide/notes for the book The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer including author information, literary elements, tale-by-tale summaries/notes for each of the tales, study questions, and analysis.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Everything You Need to Know to Read the Canterbury Tales

For Students 9th - 10th
Iseult Gillespie shares everything you need to know to read Geoffrey Chaucer's classic collection.
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Primary
Other

Sogang University: The General Prologue: The Canterbury Tales

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the complete text of "The General Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It begins with an introduction, followed by lively character portraits, and concludes with the Host suggesting a tale-telling contest.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Teaching the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this self-directed study involving research, composition, and presentation, students analyze Chaucer's characters of The Canterbury Tales as presented in the Prologue. Each student casts a modern personality in the role of one of the...
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 12: Canterbury Tales

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Students learn how the stereotypes and characterization of Chaucer's pilgrims reflect his views of religious corruption and social boundaries in the medieval period. They will consider how the themes reflected in the general Prologue...
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Website
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Gender and Sexuality

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine representations of gender, sex, and relationships in medieval literature, from the works of women's writers to tales of courtly love to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
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Article
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Geoffrey Chaucer

For Students 9th - 10th
Familiarize yourself with the life and works of Geoffrey Chaucer. This source contains a quick fact sheet, a short biography, and links to related articles, collection items, works, and teacher resources.
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Article
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: The Canterbury Tales

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an overview of "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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Handout
Other

Goucher College: "Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale"

For Students 9th - 10th
The following from the Goucher College are examined in regard to Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" from "The Canterbury Tales": Genre, Characters, Summary, and Issues and General Research Sources. Some thought-provoking...
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Website
Other

University of St. Thomas: Virtual Medieval Church: Chaucer: Canterbury Tales

For Students 9th - 10th
Fictionalized Geoffrey Chaucer introduces, you, the reader to The Canterbury Tales.
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Website
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Barltett's Familiar Quotations: Geoffrey Chaucer

For Students 9th - 10th
A list of famous lines from Chaucer, mainly from "The Canterbury Tales."
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Unit Plan
Other

Librarius: "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer

For Students 9th - 10th
This site details a chronology of Chaucer's life and the historical events that occurred during that time. It also has the Canterbury Tales with the Middle English and Modern English in a side-by-side format, and provides a Glossary for...