Sample Lesson Plan for Multimedia

(You may substitute any text for the one given. Also, your objectives might differ depending on the focus of your class.)

Lesson Topic:

The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Lesson Goals/Objectives:

To allow students to connect with a text in an unfamiliar language by hearing it read aloud.

Readings/Preparation Materials:

Students should have already read the General Prologue.

What is Required of the Instructor Before the Class Meets:

1. Find a site with audio clips from the General Prologue. A number can be found on The Chaucer Metapage.
2. Consider the technology available to you. If you are able, you could play these audio files from a computer in your classroom. Otherwise, allow that this will be an assignment students complete outside of class.
3. Find a way for students to access this site easily. Either link to it from your class web page, or write down the URL and bring it to class for your students. You might include the URL in the assignment you give to your students.

Segment #1 of the assignment: Have your students listen to the General Prologue. You may wish to have them listen to more than one reader.

Segment #2: Ask your students to respond to hearing it read aloud. This response could take place in the form of a class discussion, or it could be a written response. Have students consider whether hearing Chaucer read aloud makes it easier to understand.

Students will need to:

1. Listen to the audio files.
2. Complete the assignment.
3. Consider how completing the assignment affected their understanding of and reading of Chaucer.

The instructor will need to:

1. Check up on the students’ progress, if they are completing the assignment outside of class.
2. Be available for questions, should they arise.