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