Sunday, November 1, 2015

Reading Diary A: Canterbury Tales

For my reading this week, I chose the Canterbury Tales unit.  I was not sure what the unit was about, but the brief description intrigued me.  I thought that maybe it would be reminiscent of the Grimm fairy tales, which it vaguely is.  I did not expect that Greek mythology would be incorporated into the stories, however.  Ovid and Apollo were mentioned in the first few stories, which I thought was very interesting for a British unit!


I really liked that these stories were longer, as it was great to have some continuity to them.  However, I was not particularly impressed with any of the tales in the first half of the unit.  None of them stood out to me or caught my eye.  I liked the general storyline, but they seemed all too familiar to me.  I hope that the other half of the unit contains better stories!

Canterbury Tales Illustration. Source: Wikipedia

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