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 * grace91grace the tales of sir thopasCanterbury Tales Project 1**

Clarification: There are three pieces of text related to each character involved in this project. To do the research you need to create your PowerPoint, you need to try to find all three pieces of text, **and** look for summaries or explanations that might help you understand each of them.

1. ** Description in the General Prologue ** : Find your character’s description in the General Prologue, and copy it or link to it. Read some summaries of the General Prologue to find what they might say about your character.

2. ** The Individual Story’s Prologue: ** Find your character’s story, and look for information on that story’s prologue. What happens in the prologue? What information does it give us about a) the character and b) the story they are planning to tell?

3. ** The Story: ** (this is the story that your character tells. These are sometimes confusing and long fairy-tale type stories. Try to find summaries online that explain or analyze the story’s plot and what it means)

-Find a character who's described in the general prologue, and who also tells a separate tale. -Make a PowerPoint presentation that introduces and analyzes both the character and the story they tell. -Present your research to the class, and retell the story.
 * Assignment:**


 * 1.** How is your character described in the general prologue? What is his/her occupation? explain the job if it's not a common one today. What are they wearing? how do they act? what can we guess about their personality? give some details and use illustrations to explain unusual clothing, possessions, etc. they might have (around five or more slides)


 * 2.** What happens in the prologue to your character's individual story? What information do you think it tells us about a) the character and b) the story they are planning to tell? (around 2-3 slides)


 * 3.** What type, or genre, of story does the character tell? Is it supposed to be serious, funny, sad or something else? What are the lessons or themes that it is trying to teach? Summarize the main events of the story, and describe its main characters, settings, themes etc. (around five or more slides)

-list sources of information on a slide at the end, including photo sources.
 * Other Things to Include**
 * -**What connections, if any, can you make between the character and his or her story? Are there similarities between the person's job and personality and the story he or she tells, or not?
 * -**Be ready to share your research with the class in an oral presentation, and retell the story you studied.


 * Resources:** You will find a lot of information about Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales just by searching on Google or looking up the Wikipedia entries on the tales.

//Summaries / Analysis// If you need help with summaries and understanding what's going on in your story, SparkNotes and Cliff's Notes have good sites about the poems for students.

//Texts// If you're having trouble finding specific texts, here is one site that has all of the tales in modern English: @http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/chaucer/ct/ Here's a good site with all the original text and modern translations: @http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/ct-prolog-para.html This site has good navigation for looking at all the descriptions in the General Prologue: @http://www.librarius.com/canttran/gptrfs.htm Here's another site with modern versions: @http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/gchaucer/bl-gchau-can-genpro.htm


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