Hello All,
  This is my first attempt at blogging, so bear with me.This is my first class in over six years, and  I am excited to embark on this fairy tale journey.
   Upon reading this week, I have been reintroduced to the Wife of Bath. I have taught this text the for the last three years, so I have tried to approach the tale from a fresh perspective. Instead of focusing on the knight's lesson, I paid more attention to the the fairy woman's empowering ending.
  By analyzing the fairy woman in comparison with Lanval's fairy and Philomela, I noticed the emphasis on the fairy women controlling each situation they encountered. Considering I have been teaching many texts this year with women being controlled and oppressed, this is a refreshing change of pace.
  KCL