1. British Literature

2. Reminders… School Rules: Water, Food, Uniform, Presentation, and Punctuality. Class Guidelines: Materials, Blog, Absent, Late work, Online access to textbook, Cell Phones, Achieve 3000, and Participation.

3. British Literature

4. Goal Planner (TLIM) Identify the relationship between place/society and literature (historical context) Practice visualizing what your read. Evaluate characters through inferences. Respond actively to literature as you are reading, instead of passively looking at words. GOAL Read, comprehend, and analyze pieces of literature from the 10 th and 11 th Centuries by the end of four weeks. ACTIONS:

5. Why English is so Hard We´ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes, But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice, Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice. http://miresperanto.com/en/why_so_hard.htm Take a minute to read the following:

6. Page 3

7. The Anglo-Saxon Period (410 to 1066) Anglo- Saxons Farmers, Seafarers, Warriors Runic Alphabet Mead Halls, scop, lyrics Paganism Wyrd

8. Runic Alphabet Characters called Runes Runic writing was used for inscriptions carved in wood or stone. It was very common in Anglo- Saxon England until it was replaced by the Latin alphabet used by the Christian missionaries and monks. First page of Beowulf (Wikipedia.org)

9. Now you try it! WRITE YOUR NAME IN RUNES Rune converter: http://www.vikingrune.com/rune-converter/

10. Homework In your notebook, explain the following terms in your own words: 1)Rune 5) Alliteration 2)Wyrd 6) Assonance 3)Scop 7) Kenning 4)Mead Hall 8) Caesura