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Avoid the Edifice Complex and Enjoy Teaching Chaucer

Considers how high school students can see reading "The Canterbury Tales" as daunting. Shares a series of units of study "combining the literary and the vulgar" that fully engage the students with the text. Suggests that with a masterpiece like "The Canterbury Tales," s...

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Published in:English journal 2003-09, Vol.93 (1), p.60-65
Main Author: Baughn, Gary
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Considers how high school students can see reading "The Canterbury Tales" as daunting. Shares a series of units of study "combining the literary and the vulgar" that fully engage the students with the text. Suggests that with a masterpiece like "The Canterbury Tales," students are better served when educators take it apart and let them play with the pieces. (SG)
ISSN:0013-8274
2161-8895
DOI:10.2307/3650572