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
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