CHAUCER 
Click HERE if you need a copy of the yellow CHAUCER PACKET.
Welcome sweet spring . . . or as Chaucer would say,
“Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote / The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, / And bathed every veyne in swich licour / Of which vertu engendred is the flour;”
Click HERE or here http://englishcomplit.unc.edu/chaucer/zatta/chaucer1.wav or on the picture of the Canterbury Cathedral to listen to the first part of Canterbury Tales in Middle English!
If you would like to see more of the Canterbury Cathedral, including an interactive tour, go to this website:
http://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/
the very spot where St. Thomas Becket was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral
Do you see Robby up in the corner teasing me that he was going to throw something on the “hallowed spot”? Oh, those kids!
THE ELLESMERE
Check out this website to learn more about the Ellesmere:
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/sc/chaucer/chaucer.htm
Here beginnith the Tales of Canterbury:
1: Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
2: The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
3: And bathed every veyne in swich licour
4: Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
5: Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
6: Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
7: Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
8: Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
9: And smale foweles maken melodye,
10: That slepen al the nyght with open ye
11: (so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
12: Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
13: And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
14: To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
Here is a cool Chaucer website to check out:
http://www.towson.edu/~duncan/chaucer/images.htm
To see Wally’s 1988 and 2006 pictures from Canterbury, the Canterbury Cathedral, and Geoffrey Chaucer School, click HERE!
CHAUCER by Baba!!!
If you would like to hear several of Baba Brinkman’s Canterbury Tales rap-style, click http://www.bababrinkman.com/music/#the-rap-canterbury-tales and scroll down to The Rap Canterbury Tales (2004) and hit “play.” First will come the General Prologue (about 4 minutes) and then “The Knight’s Tale.”BABA’s HOME PAGE
Baba’s Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Baba-Brinkman/49375021070
http://www.myspace.com/bababrinkman
Wally, Baba, and Rolf when Baba came to perform his The Rap Canterbury Tales
at Eden Prairie High School
He will rock you!
Baba rappin’ Chaucer
Listen to any of BABA’s tales/recordings (NOT JUST SAMPLES BUT THE WHOLE THING, I think)
http://www.babasword.com/audio/
Listen to BABA’s ME first few lines of PROLGUE and then RAP prologue
http://www.babasword.com/audio/2generalprologue.mp3
Read side by side BABA’s sample translation of CT in Middle English to RAP
http://www.babasword.com/writing/poetry/pardcontrast.html
Listen to sample from BABA’s Chaucer biography
http://www.babasword.com/teaching/chaucerbio.html
Listen to sample from BABA’s “The Miller’s Tale”
http://www.babasword.com/audio/miller.mp3
Listen to sample from BABA’s “The Wife of Bath”
http://www.babasword.com/audio/wife.mp3
Listen to sample from BABA’s “The Pardoner’s Tale”
http://www.babasword.com/audio/pardoner.mp3
Listen to sample from BABA’s “The Knight’s Tale”
http://www.babasword.com/audio/knight.mp3
Listen to sample from BABA’s “Dead Poets’ Society”
http://www.babasword.com/audio/deadpoets.mp3
THE TALES!
“Miller’s Tale” & “Reeve’s Tale”
“THE MILLER’S TALE”–Yikes!
“The Wife of Bath’s Tale”
What do Men Want?
♥ Mel and Helen ????
OR
Mel and Ruce ♥ ????
Gender Roles
GENDER ROLES ARTICLES:
If you need copies of the GENDER ROLES articles, click a few of each COLOR and read! PINK article 1, PINK article 2, PINK article 3, PINK article 4, PINK article 5, PINK article 6, PINK article 7, PINK article 8, PINK article 9, PINK article 10,PINK article 11, BLUE article 1, BLUE article 2, BLUE article 3, BLUE article 4, BLUE article 5, BLUE article 6, BLUE article 7, BLUE article 8 ,YELLOW article 1, YELLOW article 2, YELLOW article 3, YELLOW article 4, YELLOW article 5. If required, (peer response = +3)
“Physician’s Tale”
“Nun’s Priest’s Tale”
For a former student’s storybook of this tale, click HERE.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Pardoner’s “Introduction” and “Pardoner’s Prologue” and “Pardoner’s Tale”
DREAMS!!!!
“The Nun’s Priest’s Tale”
and
“The Pardoner’s Tale”
“The Manciple’s Tale”
“The Canon Yeoman’s Tale”
Bye bye, Chaucer!!!
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