Canterbury Tales

By:Kaden Minchey

Azia Moea’ITristen McCann

Diana Hernandez Karen Venegas

Oxford Cleric

Story His story is that he is

foremost a student

He is very logical

In Text Evidence “he has taken to

logic long ago”

“still a student though”

Oxford Cleric

How He Speaks He did not speck

very often

The conversations he would have would be more on the intellectual side of things

In Text Evidence “He never spoke a

word more then needed”

“He had taken to logic long ago”

Oxford Cleric

How He Thinks and Feels

In his free time he prefers to study or teach

He dose not drink

He doesn't care about worldly items or money

He isn't a religious guy

In Text Evidence

“Gladly would he learn and gladly teach”

“He has a sober stare” “Whatever money from his

friends he took he spent on learning or another book”

“He had found no preferment in the church”

Oxford Cleric

His Looks He dresses in normal

clothing not to fancy and not in rags

He was not fat nor was he skinny he was normal

His facial expression was normally blank

In Text Evidence “the thread upon his

overcoat was bare”

“He was not to fat”

“”had a Hallow Look”

The Reeve

His Story • He was the Bailiff in

charge of the fields, taking care of the animals and buildings

In Text Evidence • “ His master’s sheep his

animals and hens pigs horses dairies stores and cattle-pens”

• “”he rode a slow trot”• “He Had a rusty Blade”

The Reeve

Speaks • He has a silver tongue

• When he speaks people listen without question

In Text Evidence• “great vocabulary”

• “feared like the plague he was, by those beneath”

The Reeve

How He Thinks and Feels • He feels that he is all that

and a bag of chips, witch he was when it came to carpentering

In Text Evidence• “ he was a carpenter of

first rate skills”

The Reeve

His Looks • He was clean shaven, his

hair was leaving him, and he was a very slender man without much muscle

• He wears a big overcoat that has a hint of blue

In text Evidence • “his beard was shaven

closely to the skin”• “Just like a priest in front”• “his legs were lean, like

sticks they were no calf were seen”

• “he wore an overcoat of bluish shade”

Vocab Preferment- the act of advising to a higher

position or office promotion Choleric- easily angered, bad tempered Appears- unfulfilled obligation Bailiff- Farm manager