Subject: English Topic: The Wife of Bath’s Tale
Grade: 9-12
Allocated Time:
50 minutes
Student Population: 30 students, 17 girls,
13 boys. There are not any known disabilities.
State Standards:
1.1. Learning to Read Independently
1.1.11
D, G, H
1.3
Reading, Analyzing and Interpreting Literature
1.3.11 A, B, F
1.4
Types of Writing
1.4.11 B
1.5.
Quality of Writing
1.5.11A, B, C
1.6
Speaking and Listening
1.6.11 A, B, D
Goal for Understanding: Students will be able
to read and interpret literature effectively.
Instructional Objective: Students will read The Wife of Bath’s Tale and identify
her ideas about life and marriage from the story and compare them to those of the time period.
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Student Behaviors
Students will read the Wife of Bath’s Tale and
interpret her ideas and beliefs based on the story and compare them to those of the time period. |
Sources of Evidence
Based on class participation in the aloud discussion.
Worksheet completed. |
Criteria for Evaluation
The handout will be completed. |
Teaching to the Objective
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Estimated
Time:
5 minutes: Quick Write
5 minutes: To have students share
20 minutes: Discussion and Reading
15 minutes: Worksheet
5 minutes: Homework and Questions |
Teaching to the Objective
Introduction/Motivation/
Prior Knowledge:
Begin by asking students to write down what his/ her own idea of marriage is.
Have a couple students share.
Developmental Activities:
Students will take turns reading the Wife of Bath’s
Tale aloud.
There will be a class discussion after the reading
Students will list three ideas from The Wife of Bath’s
Tale on a piece of loose leaf paper.
Compare them to the ideas that were held in that time period. Are the ideas similar or different?
How?
Assessment: Did every student hand in their
paper?
Closure:
Call the class together and ask if there are any questions. Assign their homework for the night.
Pass out worksheet with the elements of the Wife of Bath’s Tale. Pass out handout of the ideas held in the Renaissance Period. |
Differentiation
All students will be required to participate and discuss. I will be walking around the room
and answering any questions students have after the reading and before the assignment.
Students that are not clear on the material have an option to work with another student that
can help them.
I will be offering to have a small group in the back of the classroom to work on the assignment
with me for anyone who is not clear on the material.
I will be handing out a worksheet for those who are visual learners. |
Follow-up: Homework will be to write a 1-2
page paper. The topic of the paper will be the ideas of the Renaissance vs. the ideas of the Wife of Bath. Paper should be
double spaced, written in 12 font, Times New Roman, and should list specific examples from the text at least five.
Materials: Pen, Pencil, paper, chalk, chalk
board, copy of Canterbury Tales
Teacher
made handout on the setting and the characters, and elements of the Wife of Bath’s
Tale and also a handout on the ideas of the Renaissance Period.
Resources:
Chaucer, G (2003). The Canterbury Tales. (Eds.), Penguin
Classics. Canada.
