Library - return The Lord of the Flies and pick up The Canterbury Tales (15)
Vocabulary 19 Synonym and Antonym Search (10)
Historical Context Clues: Analyzing Artwork (15)
CLICK HERE to view a Google doc with 4 paintings.
Work together to explore every detail of these paintings:
- What is happening in each painting? Look at the details. You'll need to research!
- What do you notice about the style of painting? What might this reveal about the time period or art movement this was produced in?
- When would your group guess these were painted? This should be an educated guess!
- Are there common elements in these paintings?
- What can you infer (or conclude) about life during this time from these details?
Canterbury Tales Prologue (15)
CLICK HERE to view the video. Umm...come again?
As a group, use each other and you devices to make sense of the the prologue. Just as the prologue in Romeo and Juliet sets the stage for Shakespeare's famous play, this prologue also introduces this text. Can you figure out:
- What time of year it is?
- Where is this story taking place?
- What is the premise of the story? Why are these characters together?
- How many people are involved? Do they have a lot in common?
- What else do you learn?
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