Objective: SWBAT analyze the methods writers use to reveal character by describing a character’s actions, appearance, thoughts and feelings, interactions with other characters, narrator’s description and dialogue. SWBAT analyze the effectiveness of an author’s use of irony.
Do-Now: Respond to the Quickwrite on pg. 177 by answering the question, “What is the thing that women most desire?”
Today: 1) Review irony: situational, dramatic, verbal
2) Class will read "The Wife of Bath's Prologue" pg. 178. How is Chaucer characterizing the Wife of Bath? How is the Wife of Bath an "expert" on marriage?
3) Class will begin reading “from the Wife of Bath’s Tale,” pp. 179-188 analyzing how Chaucer characterizes the knight. Does the knight in “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” resemble the knights you read about earlier this week in the history excerpts from the Middle Ages? Does this knight uphold to code of chivalry?
4) Begin writing your character's prologue and tale for The Philadelphia Tales.
Homework: Continue working on your character's prologue and tale. Study your vocab and literary terms from The Canterbury Tales for your quiz on Wednesday.
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