1. Do Now: take out your iPads

2. Objective: to introduce ourselves to Old English
October 4, 2017
Objective: to introduce ourselves to Old English
Opening: get textbooks situated
Work Period: Brief background, Old English activities
(The Bee Movie, The Lord’s Prayer)
Closing: “Telephone” game

3. Homework
None!

4. iPads for Beowulf

5. Brief History of OE Earliest form of recorded language
Germanic roots because Anglo-Saxons originated in Germany before coming to England and pushing out Celtic-speaking inhabitants
Each letter is pronounced, there are no silent letters
Prononciations are different than what we know today (prior to great vowel shift, so vowels had different sounds)
Examples of vowel pronunciations:
fōt (Old English ) —— foot (Modern English)
cēne (Old English ) —— keen (Modern English)
hū (Old English ) —— how (Modern English)
Beowulf is the most famous work written in Old English

6. First:

7. Then::

8. The Lord’s Prayer

9. Telephone!