Creating the Chaucerian Pilgrimage

Creating the Chaucerian pilgrimage

Students travel to locations on the school campus, which have personal significance. There they read the tales they have written in imitation of Chaucer. Students are to write an original tale in Chaucerian style: using appropriate satire, detailed characters, metaphors and similes, alliteration, rhyme

·  The students are to write a minimum of four ten-line stanzas

·  The stanzas must maintain an AA, BB, CC rhyme scheme

·  The first ten-line stanza must provide the ‘frame’, as Chaucer does in his prologue

When the tales are complete, each student provides two copies, one for the teacher who acts as the host during the pilgrimage, and one from which the student will read when the time to share the tale arrives.

30 points for:

5 Maintains Chaucerian rhyme scheme

5 Uses satirical tone (providing humor) or poetic devices (providing insight)

10 Uses descriptive detail

5 Typed

5 Proper length