The Wife of Bath

​Essential Question: How does society both support and limit the development of identity?

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Focusing Question: What do The Canterbury Tales reveal about identity and storytelling?

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Content Framing Question Organize: What is happening in “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”? 

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Craft Question: Experiment: 

Examine: How do storytellers engage and orient their readers? 

​Analyze the interactions between character and plot in “The Wife of Bath’s Tale.”

​ESCAPE

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​RL.7.3 Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot). 

Think to Castle Diaries and the other tales we have heard.​

• Their identities were down played.

• Why do you think this?

Major events...

• The wife of bath tells a story about what woman want from her man.

• Tells a story about Sir Salvio

• He is about to be killed...his life can be saved.

• What do woman most desire?

• Goes on a quest to find the answer.

• An old lady agrees to tell him IF he marries her...he does not want to but does anyways.

• She is magical.

• Woman most desire to have their OWN way in EVERYTHING.

• He can have her ugly and devoted OR beautiful and desired??

• He lets HER choose....he gets both beauty and loyalty.

When a person makes a subtle hint or veiled insult, usually about something immoral or improper.

Ex. If Randy thinks that Justin told a lie, but does not want to directly accuse him, she might purposefully glance at him and say to someone else, ‘Well, unlike other people, I am not someone who tells lies.’

Keep your ears open to identify these innuendos.

Tries to act smarter than she is.

​Is of higher class with making sure they know it.

Has many experiences of traveling.​

​Discuss in your groups...

​Unintelligent

​Rich

​Speaks Quietly

​Has a lot of knowledge

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​Explain why using evidence from the text.