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\"\"I was working with the Chaucer unit in Excellence in Literature: British Literature<\/a> this morning, and thinking about the ways in which The Canterbury Tales<\/em> can be made accessible to students. These stories are funny, startling, and sometimes appalling, and most students will enjoy them, if they’re presented in the right way. Let’s look at alternative ways of introducing Chaucer:<\/p>\n

1- The Do-or-Die Method<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hand your students the Canterbury Tales<\/em> in the original Middle English (the first sentence is below), and demand that they read the whole thing and turn in a 1000-word essay by Friday.<\/p>\n

Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
\nThe droghte of March hath perced to the roote
\nAnd bathed every veyne in swich licour,
\nOf which vertu engendred is the flour;
\nWhan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
\nInspired hath in every holt and heeth
\nThe tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
\nHath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
\nAnd smale foweles maken melodye,
\nThat slepen al the nyght with open eye-
\n(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);
\nThanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
\nAnd palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
\nTo ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
\nAnd specially from every shires ende
\nOf Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
\nThe hooly blisful martir for to seke
\nThat hem hath holpen, whan that they were seeke.<\/p>\n

2- The Shallow-Well Method<\/strong><\/p>\n

Watch the animated version from a library video, or a YouTube home video version of one of the tales. Have your students write a one-page essay about how one of the stories makes them feel.<\/p>\n

3- The Building Block Method
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Introduce Chaucer and the Canterbury tales by using a good Modern English translation of the Prologue to set the scene. Provide background material to explain the purpose and format of the Tales and the historical and literary context, and listen to an audio version of the Prologue in Middle English. Read, listen to, or watch a translated version before moving into the original.<\/p>\n

Finally, provide a good annotated version of the story (the one in the Norton Anthology of English Literature is good), and have the student read (and possibly listen to) the tales and write an analytical essay of reasonable length, depending upon age and ability.<\/p>\n

When April with his showers sweet with fruit
\nThe drought of March has pierced unto the root
\nAnd bathed each vein with liquor that has power
\nTo generate therein and sire the flower;
\nWhen Zephyr also has, with his sweet breath,
\nQuickened again, in every holt and heath,
\nThe tender shoots and buds, and the young sun
\nInto the Ram one half his course has run,
\nAnd many little birds make melody
\nThat sleep through all the night with open eye
\n(So Nature pricks them on to ramp and rage)-
\nThen do folk long to go on pilgrimage,
\nAnd palmers to go seeking out strange strands,
\nTo distant shrines well known in sundry lands.
\nAnd specially from every shire’s end
\nOf England they to Canterbury wend,
\nThe holy blessed martyr there to seek
\nWho helped them when they lay so ill and weal.<\/span><\/p>\n

(Translation from the Medieval Sourcebook<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Which method do you suppose is more effective? I’ve always found it much more effective to approach a challenging subject from something that is easily accessible or already known. Teaching Shakespeare or Sophocles becomes easier if you begin with the literary and historic context, a summary of the plot, a willingness to look up unknown vocabulary words, and an idea of what the author is trying to convey. Starting with an illustrated children’s version of a complex classic may seem a bit odd, but it can be the key to developing interest and understanding. Never underestimate simplicity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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