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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?
·
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.)
What do you notice about the illustration?
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4 Class
A modest proposal
http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Jonathan-swift-a-modest-proposal-annotated#note-1163636
Modern topic
http://www.bbncommunity.com/child-hands-beggar-always-sleeping/
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4 Class
A modest proposal
http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Jonathan-swift-a-modest-proposal-annotated#note-1163636
Modern topic
http://www.bbncommunity.com/child-hands-beggar-always-sleeping/
