25 Feb: Wife of Bath

• Turn in: Metaphor Graffiti. Attach lyrics to back.
• Journal: Choose 4 Wife of Bath vocabulary words and complete a vocab activity for each.
  

Packet, page 11 notes:

• Literary Terms (add “couplets” and “allusion”)

• Dynamic characters – change during the story. Decisions these characters make, things they say, or their thoughts reflect these changes. (Guy Montag, Equality)

• Static characters – remain unchanged during a story. (Mildred, Captain Beatty)

• Couplet (add this one) – 2 lines in a row that rhyme

• allusion – a reference to something that is known from literature, history, religion

Geoffrey Chaucer lived during 1300s
Author of The Canterbury Tales
“Father of English poetry”
Wrote in the vernacular (everyday language), Middle English. Most literature was written in French at that time, so Chaucer writing in Middle English helped to increase respect for the English language.

The Canterbury Tales
Pilgrimage: journey to a sacred/religious place
Setting of the “big” story: London, Canterbury, the road from London to Canterbury
**People are going on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. On the way & back, they have a storytelling contest. This is the frame that binds the tales together. The smaller stories are the stories they tell for the contest.
**Chaucer opens The Canterbury Tales with a prologue. He explains what they are doing and gives a description of each pilgrim.
Some of these pilgrims include:
Knight - Monk
Squire - Farmer
Nun - Student
Priest - Wife (actually a widow)

The Canterbury Tales: The Sequel (poem)
Read slide 1 (slide # in bottom corner). This is the first stanza in the poem.
**Identify the rhyme scheme
**Summarize what it is about in the summary box.
**Can you find any metaphors?
**Illustrate the scene &/or images from the passage.

Your section of the sequel (various other stanzas that describe someone)
On the back of slide 1 is your individual section of the poem.
**Read it.
**Summarize it.
**Identify any metaphors.
**Illustrate it.
These were finished and turned in.

“The Wife of Bath’s Tale” - We read through line 203 on page 779. We will finish reading the story on Friday.