When I taught high school in Lower Manhattan, The Canterbury Tales was in the English Language Arts curricular cycle. I have always assumed that one of the big ideas in teaching this book was continuity and change, particularly where language is concerned. After all, this book is a significant moment in the evolution of English as a vernacular language.
I worked up this reading on Geoffrey Chaucer and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet to assist the kids in my classes to prepare to read and at least gain some understanding of the own of Chaucer. I only used it once, because, like most special educators I imagine, I was basically assigned to reinvent the wheel in another curricular area (I don’t remember what now, but at the time I was definitely in high dudgeon about it) of the common branch subjects.
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