The Merchant's Tale Chaucer Prologue Analysis

The Merchant’s Tale annotated extract. This resource will help GCE English Literature students analyse extracts. There are differentiated versions of the worksheet depending on pupils’ ability and the learning intention of the lesson.

The duration of the worksheet will depend on the learning intention of the lesson, but would take approximately 15-25 minutes to annotate and go through as a class as a revision activity. The extract is the description of the Merchant taken from the General Prologue.

There are three versions of the worksheet:

• blank extract and the question for use as an individual assessment
• differentiated highlighted version to guide less confident students towards important quotations
• highlighted and annotated version as a teacher guide, a good example of annotation to display to pupils/for self-assessment, or a revision handout to give to pupils

Further annotated extracts are available here - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13040315