We launched the Canterbury Tales today with Character Charts. The kids each picked two characters. I assigned some historical events, too: the Hundreds Years War, instances of Black Plague, the Crusades, and the life of St. Thomas Becket. Two students are comparing Beowulf to the Knight. The kids researched the origins of their surnames; surnames first emerged in the Middle Ages. I used this slideshow as an introduction. So far, so good.
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