The reference sheet - Canterbury Assignment - What it should include:

• a brief summary of the pilgrim telling the tale (from general prologue)
• a brief summary of the tale itself
• a list of characters and how they are characterized in the story
• was it moral and entertaining?
• anything historical that we would need to understand what is going on... a reference to a person or event or place... should be labeled and defined and referenced (with sources)
• Identify names of gods or people mentioned in your tale
• who was your character in 1300s would be like... what is the job? social status? kind of place they lived in? and general details about his/her life.

Presentations - see assignment sheet for details -
Historical person - gives a short talk about who they were historically (no more than 5 minutes)
Character person - gives a summary of the tale (and what values it espoused) and then finds excerpts and read them to the class that exemplify the tale.