The Canterbury Tales: Creative Story Telling
By: Luke Romano

In class we recently finished our unit on the Canterbury Tales. Now since there was so many stories in this book, Mrs. Kopp (our teacher) came up with an extremely efficient , creative, and fun way for us to learn the different tales! What her idea was, was to join in groups and read one story that you selected and find a unique way to present it to the class so its one-entertaining and two-telling the tale. My partner, Beck Godzenovich and I had the ingenious idea to turn our presentation into a sock puppet show. We believed that this childish and whimsical setting would be able to relax the audience and allow them to retain key moments by bringing them out in the play. This would work as they would say," Hey remember when..." and they would say the moment and thus remembering our plot to the friars tale. Now this is one example of a type of story telling, the creative ideas that were created in my class surprising. When I first went into the presentations I was expecting to see the same thing over and over again with different plots, but after seeing two, I realized how different they could really be. I saw raps, reality TV shows, Star Wars imitation, children books and the list goes on. And with Mrs. Kopp's idea to present them how we did, I learned much more about the stories then if I was just assigned to read the tales. Alas, we did not have enough groups in our class to learn all of the stories that are in the Canterbury Tales, but I did gain information on a sufficient amount of the stories and I found them quite interesting. Along with finding them interesting I did find many funny with groups putting a comedic twist on their story telling which helped me remember key parts of the play that were the funniest. So, I'm extremely glad we did this project and I have a strong feeling, I'm not the only one.