The Pardoner's Tale

Over the past week, you have read several of the Canterbury Tales, Today, we will finish things up with The Pardoner's Tale. Full of greed, money, and death, the Pardoner certainly spins a morality tale to enchant those "yokel minds." Below, you will find the Tim McInnery version of the tale for review and comparison.

But don't think the Pardoner is the only one that can tell such a tale. Modern writer J. K. Rowling also tells a story of three brothers' interaction with Death. Watch below to see some similarities (as I am sure she must have had The Canterbury Tales in the back of her mind while writing)!

English IV: Test TOMORROW!

Tomorrow you will be taking an open-book, open-notes test after you finish watching A Knight's Tale. You may use any of the following handouts you have received for this unit, but you may NOT use your friends in class.
Handouts:

• Seven Deadly Sins
• The Pardoner's Tale
• Canterbury Tales Character Chart Introduction

Tuesday, we will share each other's stories and watch "The Pardoner's Tale." Do not complete this section of the test tomorrow.

Canterbury Tales (A Long Journey)

Today, we looked into the history behind The Canterbury Tales using this prezi. Our class also looked into the direct and indirect characterizations of several of the twenty-nine pilgrims on their way to Canterbury Cathedral. There are plenty of images and interactives online that you can explore the Cathedral, the journey to Canterbury, or life in Chaucer's time. Get ready to listen to two pilgrim's tales next week!

If you want an entertaining summary and recap of our lesson today, 

just watch the video below by The History Teachers on YouTube. 

Enjoy!

Eng IV: TEST TOMORROW!!!!

Study all of the handouts you have received for this unit. These are the following handouts you should study:

• Seven Deadly Sins
• The Pardoner's Tale
• Canterbury Tales Character Chart Introduction
• Work analyzing political cartoons for SOCIAL COMMENTARY (not a handout)
• what is the issue?
• what is the author's opinion?
• how do you know?

If you check through the Canterbury Tales tag on the blog, you can review and watch videos to help your studying!

Social Commentary

In order to look at the social commentary of the Canterbury Tales' medieval era, we first looked at political cartoons of our modern era for social commentary. Here are the cartoons we looked at today with a few bonus slides for practice in case you see these questions again. We will continue to share and analyze our own creations in class tomorrow! Enjoy!

TEST on Thursday!

Study all of the handouts you have received for this unit. Make sure you bring ALL of the handouts (The Canterbury Tales Intro, Prologue, and Pardoner's Tale AND The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale handout) to class.

These are the following handouts you should study:

• Seven Deadly Sins
• The Pardoner's Tale
• The Wife of Bath Debates Church Fathers
• Canterbury Tales Character Chart Introduction
• Work analyzing political cartoons for SOCIAL COMMENTARY (not a handout)
• what is the issue?
• what is the author's opinion?
• how do you know?

If you check through the Canterbury Tales tag on the blog, you can review and watch videos to help your studying!

The Wife of Bath's Non-Chivalric Tale

The Education Portal serves to illustrate, illuminate, and film scholars and teachers on common school topics. Below, click the link to see some explanation on "The Wife of Bath's Tale." At this link, you can also watch other videos to further study and review for our Canterbury Tales test on Thursday!

http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/the-knights-tale-and-the-wife-of-baths-tale--two-approaches-to-chivalric-romance.html

The Seven DEADLIEST

As we continue into The Canterbury Tales, it is important to know the Seven Deadly Sins (and their punishments) as outlined by Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy, Purgatorio, as explained below.

Here's the handout that we connected the modern American pop culture icons to their deadliest sins and outlined the punishments for each.

Modernizing The Canterbury Tales

3rd Period:

Prepare to finish your modern Canterbury Tale in class. Great job working on them during class today! Be prepared to start a new unit this week!

Imagine the Canterbury Tales in the modern day:

•Who would the pilgrims be? What 7 deadly sin would their stories address? Pretend you are writing a modern CT  whose travelers are headed to NYC/Vegas/London/big city of your choice. Then, complete the following:

•Name 7 characters and give:

–2 physical details

–2 direct personality characterizations

–1 indirect characterization

•Write out a prologue for ONE of the characters

–In the form of Chaucer’s writing

•Rhyming couplets

•Ten syllables per line

•16-20 lines

–A Bio Poem

For example:

•“the Iron Chef”

•Balding and plump around the middle

•D: he has a loud, booming voice

•D: he wears a kerchief because he is prone to crying

•I: he only wears the finest Italian shoes even though he gets them wet and dirty in the kitchen

Study for Canterbury Test

Study all of the handouts you have received for this unit. Make sure you bring the Wife of Bath's tale handout to class. Best of luck studying! Remember we will have the vocab quiz first before lunch, begin the test, and have a few additional moments to complete the test on Monday.

These are the following handouts you should study:

• Seven Deadly Sins
• The Pardoner's Tale
• The Wife of Bath Debates Church Fathers
• Canterbury Tales Character Chart Introduction
• Work analyzing political cartoons (not a handout)

Here is a YouTube Video reviewing "The Pardoner's Tale."

Individual Canterbury Projects

The presentations thus far have been wonderful! If you have a prezi, PowerPoint, facebook page, or other form of visual aid that I do not already have, please either post a comment below that links to your presentation, or send me a direct email at elizabethheck@ccs.k12.nc.us . I want to make all of these available for your fellow classmates to review and have access to when preparing for our test sometime next week!

Almost through the Progress!

Canterbuy Test FRIDAY! (THIRD PERIOD)

Get ready to sum up all your medieval knowledge from this unit! We will review all our knowledge tomorrow as well as complete our political cartoons. Plan to share your cartoon wih a partner to then share with the class!

Finishing Presentations

Tomorrow will be our last day for The Canterbury Tales Presentations. I hope you enjoyed our mock-Tabard Inn today and enjoyed your refreshments. Your projects have been every bit as refreshing! Remember that Friday there is a scheduled pep-rally. You will need three Tiger Tickets and your student id to attend. Otherwise, we will be in class studying modern social commentary!

The Canterbury Tales

Thus far we have read and discussed "The Pardoner's Tale" and "The Wife of Bath's Tale." This week, we will continue reading and discussing the social commentary found in each of the tales. Expect a final assessment this week as we complete Chaucer's comical and interesting tales.

Honors: Your individual projects will be presented this week beginning on Tuesday. You already have the informational half done: the handout. Now you should be preparing your artistic interpretation and presentation to the class. Make sure the rest of the class is entertained and understands the tale!

The Pardoner's Tale https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByVKpn2OdpFAWHc5YlRwOGEweUk
Individual Project https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByVKpn2OdpFAWHc5YlRwOGEweUk

IV Honors Individual CT Project

Here is a video of a characterization of The Pardoner's Prologue. We will read this story together in class.

As you will see, I am not expecting anything extravagant or over-the-top. If you want to do something that pulls out all of the stops, I will modify our project so that you can work in teams to create a full-blown Canterbury Tale.

Other suggestions for visual aids for retelling the Canterbury Tale I assigned you:

• Picture Book
• Informational Website
• Screenplay

Your handout that covers the required details of the story is the most important part of your project. These will be handed out to the rest of the class.

Seven Deadly Sins Handout https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByVKpn2OdpFAR2tuWC0tMmRzOVU
Individual Project https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByVKpn2OdpFAaHVDZHVUNTd4cEE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkLXb2cpMz8

Canterbury Tales

3rd Period:
Finish 3 details for each column about The Yeoman, The Monk, The Friar, and The Nun.

4th Period:
Write 1 detail for each column about The Yeoman, The Nun, The Monk, The Friar, The Merchant, The Cleric, The Lawyer, The Franklin.

Remember:
Direct characterization: Use an actual LINE from the text with page/line #.
Indirect characterization: Draw conclusions from lines of action/Paraphrase/Add your own impression of the pilgrim with page/line #.


https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByVKpn2OdpFARjA3amFFT0RLWlU
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByVKpn2OdpFAVkZxUklyS2JUaUE

Get a copy of The Canterbury Tales

Honors English 4, make sure you pick up a copy of The Canterbury Tales. There are two versions of the text in the library. Please get the black VERSE translation copy.

Medieval Ballads Song Resources

"Get Up and Bar the Door" http://www.charlieandcelia.com/music-55.html

"The Barrin' O' the Door" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBe_vH04ffk

"In the Jailhouse Now" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSq8mnDH_1o