The Merchant's Tale planning grid

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Helen Millman Jones
The Merchant's Tale planning grid
Main Subject
Key stage
Exam board
Category
English
Resource type
Student activity
Author
Geoffrey Chaucer
Title
The Merchant's Tale

A useful essay planning template to help A-level students tackle exam questions on two extracts from the text. Students complete analytical notes or responses to the following: 

  • Context/wider significance of extract
  • Plot
  • Characterisation
  • Dialogue
  • Comic effects

(Textual references are from the CUP edition of 'The Merchant's Tale', edited by M. Hussey.) 

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