MCHS Students Take a Pilgrimage By: Stephanie Williams

             Mrs. Coffey's English IV class read The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer. The tales consist of The Prologue, The Pardoner's tale, and The Wife of Bath's Tale.

            Coffey taught the students about the characters in The Tales by playing a game. She chose a few students to go to the front of the room to represent the characters, and the remaining student. Some of the characters include the knight, squire, monk, nun, friar, cook, doctor and more.

            Students are required to write a rhyming poem about The Tales. They took a pilgrimage around the school to represent how the pilgrims took a pilgrimage in the Tales. Students stopped to read their poems out loud to each other at different places in the hallway. Each student got a grade for writing the poem and got extra points for dressing up as their character. Cortney McCoy said "Dressing up as someone else gave me a chance to imagine what things would be like if I was this character."