For this assignment you will randomly select a pilgrim and complete the following:
1. Locate your pilgrim’s description in the text and write it just as it appears.
2. Research your pilgrim’s occupation and record all relevant information. Make sure you specifically research that occupation for Medieval England. You must use, at least, 3 sources and include a works cited page. Two, of the three, sources must be from peer-reviewed and/or scholarly articles. Google scholar is excellent!!!!
3. Using notes taken during the research process, write, at least, a three-page description of the pilgrim’s occupation as it would have been viewed during the Middle Ages in England. Focus on elements such as training/education, salary, length of work day, etc.
4. Find a visual representation of your pilgrim. What would he/she have looked like and how would he/she have dressed? Use books, the internet or draw your own.
5. After gathering this information and writing on it, think about jobs of today and how your pilgrim has many of the same characteristics exhibited by workers in our world (not just workers but all kinds of people fulfilling all kinds of duties and roles.) Find a modern-day equivalent for your pilgrim. In other words, what kind of person living and working in our world today could be compared to Chaucer’s character? Include a visual image of this person (from a book, the internet, your own drawing). Be able to defend your choice. Why is this person a good representation for your pilgrim? What do they do that is similar?
7. Create a limerick for your pilgrim.
8. Create an acrostic using descriptive words, phrases or sentences that relate to the character’s profession.
9. This is due:
For this assignment you will randomly select a pilgrim and complete the following:
1. Locate your pilgrim’s description in the text and write it just as it appears.
2. Research your pilgrim’s occupation and record all relevant information. Make sure you specifically research that occupation for Medieval England. You must use, at least, 3 sources and include a works cited page. Two, of the three, sources must be from peer-reviewed and/or scholarly articles. Google scholar is excellent!!!!
3. Using notes taken during the research process, write, at least, a three-page description of the pilgrim’s occupation as it would have been viewed during the Middle Ages in England. Focus on elements such as training/education, salary, length of work day, etc.
4. Find a visual representation of your pilgrim. What would he/she have looked like and how would he/she have dressed? Use books, the internet or draw your own.
5. After gathering this information and writing on it, think about jobs of today and how your pilgrim has many of the same characteristics exhibited by workers in our world (not just workers but all kinds of people fulfilling all kinds of duties and roles.) Find a modern-day equivalent for your pilgrim. In other words, what kind of person living and working in our world today could be compared to Chaucer’s character? Include a visual image of this person (from a book, the internet, your own drawing). Be able to defend your choice. Why is this person a good representation for your pilgrim? What do they do that is similar?
7. Create a limerick for your pilgrim.
8. Create an acrostic using descriptive words, phrases or sentences related to the character’s profession.
9. This is due: