DE English/Rosenbaum
SHS Pilgrimage/Creative Project/ Chaucerian Food Celebration/ The Best Storyteller
on The Canterbury Tales
I. SHS Pilgrimage- worth 25 points
Since we cannot afford to go on a pilgrimage to see the shrine of the Archbishop of Canterbury in England, we are going to do the next best thing. We are going to do a pilgrimage to all the sights of Sebring High School! I will serve as tour guide, and you can bring your camera (no—not on your cell phone) to take pictures and/or video. After our tour ends, you can get into a group and decide how best to explain to the class what you learned on your SHS Pilgrimage. You may present this as a film or powerpoint or slide show. We will work on this in-class on ______and present it on ______.
II. Creative Project- Choose one of the following creative assignments to complete on ______on The Canterbury Tales. This project will be worth 50 points.
Ye Olde Advert Assignment- Create a travel brochure advertising Canterbury pilgrimages starting from the Tabard Inn in Chaucer’s day. Include appropriate details from The Canterbury Tales, such as the name of the inn’s proprietor. You should take into account the following categories with your travel brochure: food, entertainment, lodging, and travel clothing.
Sebringian Pilgrimage (Children’s Story)-Create a children’s book with at least ten photographs of places of significance to you in Sebring. Find a way to tell a story that makes sense and is appropriate for a child. If it makes sense to make the story autobiographical, that is acceptable as well.
Sebringian Pilgrimage (Film Version)-Create a short film with you standing in front of at least ten places or with at least ten people (or a combination of each) that are significant to you in Sebring. Find a way to create a film that makes sense and is appropriate for the classroom. If you wish the people of significance to you to speak in your film, that is appropriate as well. It should be about five minutes long.
I Am a Sebring Pilgrim!-Come dressed as a teacher or fellow student that would be familiar to all students in class. Then, you will need to read an original poem to the class that you have written. It should be about your pilgrim and be modeled after the style of Chaucer. Your poem should be in rhyming couplets and at least twenty lines long. It goes without saying that your costume/imitation/poem should be complimentary and not cruel in nature.
I Am A Canterbury Pilgrim!- Come dressed as your favorite pilgrim mentioned in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. You will then need to read to the class the original description of the pilgrim in Middle English. You can find the Middle English version for each pilgrim at: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/CT-prolog-para.html (This contains a side-by-side Middle English and Modern English version.) You can find a pronunciation guide for Middle English at: http://www.ajdrake.com/e211_spr_05/materials/guides/med_chaucers_english.htm
III. Chaucerian Food Celebration- worth 15 points
The same day you present your creative project, we will also do a Chaucerian Food Celebration. You need to bring in a medieval food that will serve eight to ten people. (A good place to find medieval recipes from Chaucer’s times is: http://www.godecookery.com/mtrans/mtrans.htm) Since medieval people used their hands in most of what they ate, try to bring in a recipe that can be eaten with one’s hands. If you choose to bring in something that requires utensils, please supply the utensils as well. You may also choose to buy something, but you simply need to justify to me how the food relates to medieval times. (Yes, it will be okay if you buy Oreos and cover up the name Oreos with “Ye Olde Chocolate and Cream Cookies.”)
IV. The Best Storyteller- worth 15 points
During the class before our Chaucerian Food Celebration, everyone is going to write a story that begins with the same first line, is entertaining, and contains a moral at the end (just like the pilgrims did to entertain themselves on the way to Canterbury!). If you wish to do so, you may hang up your story on the wall (without your name on it). The day of our Chaucerian Food Celebration, you will be given a sticky note (which you should put your name on). The student whose story ends up with the most sticky notes under it will be given the reward of “The Best Storyteller” and will receive a goody bag.