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​2025 Graduation Genially -- Click HERE

​After class ends, anyone who attended class live will be able to blank-submit today's lesson for credit. Anyone who watches the recording after class must still complete all lesson items in edio to earn credit.

Open Ended

Close your eyes and think of the most tranquil place you can imagine. Then, open your eyes and use sensory details to describe the place you went to in your mind palace.

​This problematic man over here ...

​Take a look at the character of the Miller, looking specifically at lines 578-581. Look for words and phrases that show how the Miller treats his customers.

Multiple Choice

What do the lines in question suggest about the Miller?

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  A miller’s customers bring their grain to the mill to be ground into flour. As payment, the miller is supposed to receive a certain percentage of the grain.

• This Miller knows how to trick his customers into paying three times as much for grain as the Miller is supposed to receive.

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  This Miller is incredibly sneaky, which demonstrates a lack of conscience.

• All of these

Multiple Choice

How does Chaucer's narrator feel about the Miller based on how he's described within the prologue?

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  He admires the Miller's entrepreneurial spirit.

• He finds the Miller to be amusing and charming.

• He highlights how the Miller is rude and dishonest.

• He is indifferent to the Miller's wrongdoing.

​This is Chaucer’s way of warning sensitive readers that “rudeness” will probably ensue.

Chaucer appears to be apologizing in advance, but actually, he seems to enjoy shocking his readers.

Remember, tomorrow is a flex day!

You will not have classes to attend or lessons to complete, but you must log in for attendance, and it's a perfect day to catch up if you are behind in any of your coursework.
I will see you all again on Monday, 11/11 !