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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 |
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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) |
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ISSN: | 0013-8274 2161-8895 |
DOI: | 10.2307/3650572 |