Narrative Genre
http://www.englishlanguageterminology.org/index.htm
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A good link for literature
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
http://www.novelexplorer.com/category/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner/
POETRY
WEBQUESTS
Canterbury Tales Webquest
Today
you are going to research background information about Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales. Anything not completed in class should be
finished for HW.
- Working alone or with one other person, use the links to answer the questions listed below. - Please PARAPHRASE your answers rather than
copying and pasting information.You may type your answers directly into the document and print
when finished.
1.
Geoffrey Chaucer: What kind of
writer was he?
2. What were the
years of his birth and death?
3. Where was he
from?
4. What was his
“masterpiece” ?
2.
What is a pilgrimage? (You should already know this from our vocab. quiz.)
- Define prologue.http://www.webster.com (or other
dictionary site)
4.
Where is Canterbury?
What famous
event happened there?
What are the
goals of the many people who travel there on pilgrimages?
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Canterbury,-England
- When were The Canterbury
Tales written? In what language
were they written?
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What are they about? What is a frame tale? What happens in the
Prologue?
http://www.librarius.com/cantales.htm
6. What were the “Three Estates” during the Middle Ages?
Estate =
1st =
2nd =
3rd=
How were women
categorized?
The
“___________________ estates”
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- What was the Black Death?
http://www.bartleby.com/65/ch/Chaucer.html
- Choose a picture from the site below to copy and paste it into
this document: http://www.godecookery.com/macabre/macabre.htm
(Copy, paste and resize to fit this space.)
