Students work in groups to imagine, research and simulate a dinner party involving an author, a fictional character, and a significant historical figure as dinner guests. The activity uses Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the time...

Students dress like Chaucer's pilgrims in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales and act out a skit revealing Chaucer's description of each pilgrim.

This site offers the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales with the Middle English and Modern English in a side-by-side format, and provides a glossary for unfamiliar terms.