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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

What good is Beowulf?
High school students can follow the English language's evolution in Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales, and they can focus on words and their meaning as they compare translations.
By Jo Barbara Taylor.
The Great Chaucer Challenge: A cooperative learning game to review the Prologue
This game employs the cooperative learning group format to review thoroughly Chaucer's Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and "The Pardoner's Tale" and "The Nun's Priest's Tale."
Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
By Julie Shaw.

Resources on the web

Geoffrey Chaucer
Learn about Chaucer and view a chronology of his life and times. Read excerpts of the Canterbury Tales and other related Middle English texts. This site will help you make sense of the language and also discover courtly love, pilgrimages, medieval science,... (Learn more)
Format: website/general
Provided by: Harvard University