The Knight's Tale Inferences Cite Textual Evidence Analysis

1. Week 5: Lesson 5
The Knight’s Tale

2. DO NOW
TWO CHARACTERS IN TODAY’S STORY HAVE A RIVALRY. WHAT IS A
RIVALRY? LIST 3 – 4 EXAMPLES OF RIVALRIES YOU HAVE
EXPERIENCED OR WITNESSED.

3. AIM
SWBAT CITE SEVERAL PIECES OF TEXTUAL
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT ANALYSIS OF A TEXT.

4. CONVICT
A person
serving a
prison
sentence

5. BILLET
Lodging for
a soldier

6. CAPARISONED
Clothed richly
and colorfully

7. HAFT
The handle of a
knife, sword, or
dagger

8. RL.7.1: CITE SEVERAL PIECES OF TEXTUAL EVIDENCE
READING THINKING
STEPS
Display:
TEACHER MODELING
Say:
Analyze the text.
Think: What can you
figure out about its
meaning?
 Use details from the text to explain how a particular literary
element or device affects the text’s overall meaning. Choose
an element, such as setting or character, and draw an
inference about it.
 We examined the element of characterization. One
interesting thing the author does with the characters is that
he does not give them names. Instead, he refers to them by
occupation, which is their place in the social hierarchy. This
suggests that social status is more important than
individual identities.

9. Scan the text or your notes for
several details that relate to
your analysis.
Look for different kinds of
evidence, such as:
 character descriptions.
 what the character says,
does, thinks, and feels.
Look
 in different parts of the text.
 for several details.
 Select several examples of words, phrases, and details from the text
that support your ideas. Look for quotations and examples of the
literary device or of how it affects meaning. The details should support
your analysis. In longer texts, look for details from different parts and
try to find at least three.
 Because my inference is about how the author names the characters, I
will search for several details that show how the author introduces the
characters. I see that the narrator describes who the other characters
are, but he only refers to them as “the Miller,” “the Ploughman,” and “a
Summoner.” He also says “the Knight’s chain-mail began to shine.”
These details support my analysis that social status at this time was
more important than an individual’s identity.

10. Choose the best details and
evidence to support your
analysis.
Study each detail or example
carefully.
Think: Is it relevant?
If yes, thenthink:
Is it precise?
Is it specific?
• Choose strong evidence to support your analysis
effectively. Strong evidence includes a clear
example of a literary element, connects to another
piece of textual evidence, supports the analysis
clearly without lengthy explanation, and quotes the
text accurately without changing its meaning.
• The details that the narrator uses the pilgrim’s titles
to describe them, rather than learning their names,
clearly shows that the narrator only thinks of the
people as their occupations, not as individuals.
There are several pieces of evidence I can take
directly from the text to support my analysis without
my having to change the text’s meaning to support
my interpretation.

11. Explain what you
figured out about
the text. Use your
strong evidence to
support your ideas
Finally, expand on your analysis by explaining how and
why the details show that your idea is accurate. Make
sure to quote any evidence accurately.
The fact that the narrator and Chaucer himself
introduce the characters by their title and not by their
individual names shows that people in medieval
society were defined more by their occupation and
place in the social order than as individuals.