5-6 minutes – beginning of class

Grammar Skills & Vocabulary Building

Collected every Friday

Unexcused Tardy – no make up

Absent/Excused Tardy -- write that day’s date

-- A (absent) or ET (excused tardy)

Copy another student’s warm ups = no credit

Warm Up # 1Vocabulary List #1

Sentence Completion8/28/12

 1. Many great British poets are quoted so often that their words now

seem _________. 2. When poets use the ideas and styles of previous writers, their

intention is not to ________ but to build on and reinterpret the past. Occasionally, however, a poet has been accused of stealing.

 

 

*name island Great Britain1. CELTS

*religion – Animism (Latin for spirit)

*spirits everywhere; control all

*Stonehenge – Druids (priests) *mythology

*fierce women; enchanting & bright *influence later Irish & English writers

(Sir Thomas Malory & William Butler Yeats)

*language -- Gaelic

Stability

2. ROMANS

-- stop invaders for several hundred years

-- departure = chaos & Anglo- Saxons conquer

Architecture -- defensive wall (Hadrian’s wall)

-- built network of roads

Government -- organized centralized govt.

Religion -- introduce Christianity

Language -- Latin

3. ANGLO-SAXONS

*Germanic origins

*Beowulf sounds more German than English

*language evolution

*German + Gaelic + Latin = Old English

*religion – Warrior Religion

4. VIKINGS & NORMANS

*ended Anglo-Saxon domination

*1066 Battle of Hastings – William the Conqueror

*Duke of Normandy (French) *Viking descent

Warm Up #2Vocabulary List #1

Sentence Completion8/29

 1. Some poems are so joyful that they are almost ecstatic; others

are so sad that they could be considered ________________. 2. No one would accuse Sir Francis Bacon of being _______. He was

a smooth talker, but his statements and his writing had substance.

 

1. Tribal Government (initially)

*influenced by harsh climate; centered on survival

*strong leader w/council of wise elders

*rule by consensus

2. Occupations – Social Hierarchy

*Warriors – highest social standing; tribe’s safety *Craftsman – weaponry & jewelry

*Farmers – unskilled laborers

3. Religion – Christianity & paganism coexist

*Christianity -- monasteries

*shelter & safety

*paganism – dark & hopeless

*no control own destiny (predestination)

*no afterlife

*morality code – 4 Warrior Virtues

*learning – preserve Greek & Latin literature

bravery generosity loyalty friendship

4. Literature

*male dominated

*reflect their values

*oral not written -- scops/bards (storytellers)

* = to warriors

*offer immortality & teach history

*extol (praise) warrior virtues

KING ALFRED OF WESSEX – ALFRED THE GREAT

1. united England

*Christianity

*stop Danes

2. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

*history of England – early days to 1154

*still referenced today

3. English Language

*predominantly spoken

*now written – Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -- language not respected until it’s written

ANGLO-SAXON WOMEN

1. not expected 2B subservient

2. had rights

*could inherit & hold property

*dowry (morgengifu) – substantial gift of $ and/or land – groom gives to bride