Chaucer's Poetry Lesson Plan

Satirizing Love

Kind of Activity:

Performance

Objective:

Students will creatively interpret aspects of the text in an original production.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.6 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.3 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.4

Structure:

For this exercise, the teacher should break up the class into 3 groups of at least 4 people (the groups can have different numbers of students if so desired). These groups will work on creating a short satirical skit of the norms or practices of modern romance, as Chaucer did with courtly love in his poem "The Parliament of...