Chaucer's Poetry Lesson Plan

For this section, students should read the entirety of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Parliament of Fowls," in Middle English and/or Modern English.

Common Core Objectives

1. 1

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9–10.1

   Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

2. 2

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9–10.2

   Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

3. 3

   CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.3

   Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using...