Provide hands-on activities for practice and mastery. Check for understanding of concepts and skills by using relevant standard materials, i.e. worksheets, text problems, workbooks, teacher prepared exercises, etc.

Students will as a group create a modern scenario,

Objective: Students will create their own scenarios and people it with appropriate representations for the modern society it represents.

Activity: Students will as a group create a modern scenario, The E.C. Tales, which will enable a wide group of people to be present. They might suggest a bus, a train depot, an airport, the mall, etc. They will then brainstorm a variety of representatives who might be in this place. Each student will develop a character from the brainstormed list. The character will be presented through a character sketch such as those that were studies in The Canterbury Tales and then will relate an appropriate tale fro this character to tell. These character sketches will be written using third person and should provide “clues” to understanding the character.
While Chaucer’s audience understood humours, the modern audience might recognize bruises, or other physical elements. Just as Chaucer “borrowed” some of his stories; students may also, but the tale must reveal something of substance about the character who tells it. They will also devise a costume for the character and will present their characters as a part of the large group’s final event. If they plan to travel with another character they must plan accordingly and make appropriate transitions. Parents and other faculty will be invited to participate in the final project.

Assessment: The teacher and the students will create a rubric for assessment of the effectiveness of the character sketch, the costume and the tale.