The Canterbury Tales
To achieve an excellent score on this Writing Activity, you must:
Exceed the minimum requirement by fully developing and supporting all points with multiple examples and details
Present an original and new perspective
Demonstrate a clear familiarity with readings and connect details from the readings to concepts learned in the lessons
Ensure that your literary analysis skillfully interprets the text in relation to historical, cultural, or social context, or shows a sophisticated understanding of how a text reflects, shapes, or responds to historical, cultural, and social realities.
Ensure that your analysis creates complex connections between the text and context, creating an interpretation that would not arise from the text itself.
Ensure that your submission is readable, containing no noticeable errors in punctuation, format, punctuation, or style
Prompt
You are back in time in England during the Middle Ages. You join a group of pilgrims much like the group in The Canterbury Tales.
1) Do some research into the life, times, housing, food, customs, clothing, and travel of the time of Chaucer in Great Britain.
2) First describe the people, clothing, language, and travel conditions that you encounter on your pilgrimage.
3) Next, tell your own tale in the form of a medieval romance in which you teach a lesson about one of the following: the treatment of women, the strengths and weaknesses of the growing merchant (middle) class, the Code of Chivalry: its pros and cons and whether the code is truly practiced in the way it was intended
4) Look up these concepts also common to the Middle Ages and make use of at least one of them in your tale: The Bodily Humors (See Humors, Bodily), the changes in the English Language during the Middle Ages, the custom of supporting an argument with quotes from a famous Greek or Latin philosopher or with quotes from the Bible)
Must be in 12 pt, times new roman font, double spacing and body be left aligned
