Canterbury Tales Presentations
by Ryan Vonderschmidt
January 28, 2008
The College English classes, taught by Mrs. Davis, recently ended their study of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Each class split into groups and each group studied one of the tales from the Canterbury Tales. After completing their “tales”, each group created a booklet that told the class about their tale. The booklets also let the students get a little creative. The students had to list what they did for their “pilgrim” while on the trip to Canterbury.
“It was fun to be so creative while creating our booklets,” said fellow senior Austin Hrencher. The other pages in the book told the class how their pilgrim looked and what his/her tale was about.
A lot of creativity went into how the books were made also. Some typed their books on simple white computer paper, while others made their booklet look older using tainted paper. Some people used binders to put their pages in while some bound their books with strings.
The next part of the project was to create a presentation so students will learn each groups tale. Most students made videos showing their tale in funny and creative ways. Students either dressed up as their characters or depicted the tale with a modern fashion. Some presentations will even have commercials throughout the presentation. This was the most fun out of all the projects requirements.
I believe this project helped students learn a lot about the Canterbury Tales. “It helped me apply the Canterbury Tales to the real world by putting a modern twist to it in my presentation,” said Rahnishia Day. Many of the tales were very hard to understand, with the presentations, the tales became a lot easier to understand. The presentations were a very fun way to learn a great piece of literature like the Canterbury Tales.
