Department of English

During the Spring 2024 term, Professor Emily Steiner gave her students a creative option for their final project:

“Adapt a Chaucerian tale for children (creative, under 600 words) OR design a unit on the Canterbury Tales for middle school/junior high students (approximately 5th-8th grades) (critical, under 600 words). You are welcome to compose either assignment in a language other than English, so long as you give an English translation as well. In either case, please be very intentional about your decisions, perhaps inspired by the nineteenth- and early twentieth-models we discussed in class. For which children (and proxy readers) are you writing? For those of you designing a teaching unit, do consider demographic factors, school system, institution, etc. You might consider developing a unit for your own middle school/junior high alma mater!”

Zuza Jevremovic, a student in Steiner’s class, chose the creative option. After studying some old renditions of children’s Chaucer by Charles Cowden Clarke, Mary Eliza Haweis, and Katharine Lee Bates, Jevremovic selected appropriate text and added illustrations. 

Click here to see Zuza's work!