A takeaway homework menu for KS3 students studying an introduction to Chaucer. Made to go alongside the scheme I have uploaded here.

This scheme has been planned to introduce KS3 students to Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales. This is important as students need to experience texts from different time eras in order to prepare them for the new GCSE specification. This part of the scheme includes full PPT lessons and all accompanying resources. In this part, the students will look at the following: • The Miller – discuss initial impressions of character and predictions for tale. Compare original version to modern version to find patterns in words. Use quotes to create portrait and examine specific words that create impressions. • Discuss gender representations and the changing role of women. Examine The Wife of Bath – discuss impressions of her character and how she challenges/adheres to expectations and stereotypes. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCq6117mYqg (animated tales for LA) • Compare the two - discuss how to compare texts and offer writing frame focusing on physical attributions and how their characters are portrayed. • Summarise the type of people Chaucer portrayed and why the tales are still looked at today – do they challenge our own stereotypes or teach us not to judge? • Students create their own pilgrim. Reintroduce the idea of class and class stereotypes. Mindmap physical features and qualities their pilgrim will have and how physical qualities match with stereotype/class. • Develop a description of your own Pilgrim that would fit into the general prologue – use checklist of the techniques/devices Chaucer uses in his own descriptions as a guideline.

This scheme has been planned to introduce KS3 students to Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales. This is important as students need to experience texts from different time eras in order to prepare them for the new GCSE specification. This part of the scheme includes full PPT lessons and all accompanying resources. In this part, the students will look at the following: • Who was Chaucer? What is a pilgrimage? Discuss modern pilgrimage. Introduce Canterbury tales and pilgrim characters. Discuss class and stereotypes and examine quotations from the general prologue that discuss certain characters. • Introduce the start of the general prologue of The Canterbury Tales – link back to language of ME. Look at purpose of a prologue. Students work to sort prologue using original version to scaffold. Understand what the story is about and demonstrate through an ‘explain what you learn…’ question and then create a reworded version of the prologue. • Introduce description of the Knight (from general prologue). LA to look at modern translation and HA to look at original (alongside translation). Look at where in the class hierarchy he would fall. • What is your impression of the Knight? Discuss quotations (translated for LA) and scaffold an Impressions Q.

This scheme has been planned to introduce KS3 students to Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales. This is important as students need to experience texts from different time eras in order to prepare them for the new GCSE specification. This part of the scheme includes full PPT lessons and all accompanying resources. In this part, the students will: • Brief timeline of history of English Language – touch upon non verbal communication. Research task into Old English, Middle English and Modern English. (on PPT lesson 2). • Discuss etymology – words changing meaning over time. Discuss which words they think have been introduced to 2015 dictionary. Introduce article about ‘meh’ and ‘twerk’ – locate and retrieve question. • Look at Old English – study Beowulf/Anglo Saxons. Discuss ‘key features’ of Anglo Saxon stories and create a short one of your own. Opportunity to stretch over 2 lessons and write story in their books. • Introduce Middle English – discuss need for Caxton printing press – standardisation. How things were before v after. Collect information.

This bundle contains over 20 worksheets that allow students to analyse the key quotations in the novella. Each PPT contains several key quotes in relation to the themes: - Time - Supernatural - Blame and guilt - Isolation The sheets themselves work on all of the Assessment Objectives (AO1/AO2/AO3) and ask students to analyse the language of the quotations whilst linking them to context.

A bundle of extracts for students to use for revision or for you to scaffold a lesson from. Each extract has a specific AO1, AO2 and AO3 focus and the extracts cover different themes and different characters.

A bundle of extracts for students to use for revision or for you to scaffold a lesson from. Each extract has a specific AO1, AO2 and AO3 focus with highlighted sections to help. You can also removed the highlighted quotations for differentiation.

2 full interactive lessons that guide students through the poem and the main themes.

Interactive observation lesson used to guide students through the poem.

Posters that display the new assessment objectives

Two lessons that explore model paragraphs responding to an extract from Act 2:2 and a lesson that looks at the role of the friar in Act 2:3. Also explores the theme of age V youth and has an opportunity for hot seating.

This lesson explores the shared sonnet and asks students to analyse the language used. Links to the WJEC reading paper are also made.