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2013

In the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer provides us with descriptions of the characters of the group traveling to Canterbury. For this assignment, you along with 3 classmates will be investigating the descriptions of the Knight (ll. 43-78), the Prioress (ll. 118-162), the Friar (208-271), the Wife of Bath (ll. 447-478), the Parson (ll. 479-530), and the Summoner (ll. 625-669) in the General Prologue.
You will be assigned a character in class and your task will be as follows:
1. Choose a couplet (two rhymed lines) in the character’s description that you think offers information about the character that is important for the class to know.
2. Practice speaking aloud the words in the couplet. Start with the vowels: locate which vowels (and vowel combinations) you see and find them in the pronunciation chart in our textbook (p. 20-21 in the NAEL 9th edition). Go to the METRO website and review the spelling and pronunciation guide.
3. Rewrite the couplet phonetically so that you can tell how to pronounce the words.
4. Repeat it out loud enough times that you can start thinking about the way the couplet sounds. Can you hear a pattern of sounds? Is that pattern repeated vowel sounds (assonance), or repeated consonant sounds (consonance)? Does speaking the line out loud make you do something weird with your mouth or tongue? If so, does noticing what you’re doing with your mouth or tongue while speaking the line affect your understanding of the line?
5. Gather your thoughts and notes on these lines (the importance, the way the couplet sounds, how those sounds affect your understanding of the text), and create an annotation on the lines on Rap Genius. Make sure you’re annotating the Middle English version of the General Prologue! If you’re feeling extra fancy, you could record yourself speaking the couplet and link the recording in your annotation!
6. Be prepared to read your couplet aloud in class and discuss the importance of your couplet along with the other class members working on the character you were assigned.
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