The Merchant’s Tale (Chaucer) annotated extracts. These worksheets are designed to help GCE English Literature students practise extract analysis/annotation in preparation for analysing a specific extract in the exam. There are differentiated resources per extract depending on pupils’ ability and the learning intention of the lesson. Each extract has a specific question attached to it. The duration of the worksheet will depend on the learning intention of the lesson, but would take approximately 15-25 minutes to annotate and go through as a class as a revision activity.

There are three versions of each sheet:

• blank extract and the question for use as an individual assessment
• differentiated highlighted version to guide less confident students towards important quotations
• highlighted and annotated version as a teacher guide, a good example of annotation to display to pupils/for self-assessment, or a revision handout to give to pupils

There are five annotated extracts:

• 33-54: presentation of January
• 318-341: presentation of marriage
• 611-638: presentation of January
• 948-972: presentation of January
• 1108-1133: presentation of January and May

If you haven’t seen it already, there’s also a free annotated extract available - /teaching-resource/resource-13030820