Bell Work Seniors

Copy the following sentences into your notebook. It wasn’t until several centuries after the poems action – between AD 500 and 600 that Beowulf was written down. Before it was recorded the poem as spoken aloud or sang by a poet, also known as a scop. 11-12-12

Copy the following sentences into your notebook Copy the following sentences into your notebook. These should be added to the Bell Work paper you started yesterday! 3. The two greek epics titles the iliad and the Oddyssey are atributed to a poet named homer. 4. Many greeks believed that homer had been blind. Perhaps because a character in the Odyssey a bard called Demodokos is blind. 11-13-12

Copy the following sentences into your notebook. 5. The Exeter Book, one of the most important sources of Old english literature is a collection of poems that includes the Seafearer The Wanderer and the Wifes Lament. 6. the book also contains a famous collection of riddles and several, longer religious poems. 11-14-12

Proofread the sentences below and write them correctly. 7. Bede is the auther of many works his History of the English Church and People is said to be the most informative and artful account produced in medieval England. 8. His book gives a detailed account of the religious and political changes that took place in england during the spread of christianity. 11-15-12

Proofread the sentences below and write them correctly. 9. In the 14th century, when chaucer wrote The Cantebury Tales England had a population of about 2,500,000. 10. Small Market towns which were seldom populated by more than 150 person dotted the english Countryside. 11-16-12

Proofread the sentences below and write them correctly. 11. Of all the pilgrems in The canterbery tails, the pardoner is one of the most complex figures. 12. We know he is’nt stupid because his knowledge and use of pychology demonstrate his intelligence.

Proofread the sentences below and write them correctly. 13. Inn Chaucer’s time, writers offen maligned women in stories buy portraying them as week characters. 14. The wife of bath displays all the poorer qualities charged aginst women in litrature, but she openley glories in her posession of those charactristics. 11-20-12

Proofread the sentences below and write them correctly. 15. What does The arabian Nights, Aesop’s Fables, Boccaccios Decameron, chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, and “Jack and the Beanstalk” have in common? 16. Well, they can be all traced back – believe it or not to the same beginning: ancient indian litrature. 11-26-12

Proofread the sentences below and write them correctly. 17. The War of the Roses were a conflict between too nobel families the yorks and the lancasters. 18. Neither family was ultimately victorious Henry Tudor, a distant relative of the Lancasters claimed the thrown and ended it. 11-27-12

Proofread the sentences below and write them correctly. 19. Barbara Allan hurryed to town to get help for sir John but her efforts were in vane. 20. Most ballads are about lifes trajedies, real or fictional, and many deal with dissappointed love. 11-28-12

Proofread the sentences below and write them correctly. 21. King arthur and his Round table have been the basis for stories for centurys. 22. Among the famous versions are TH White’s “The Once and Future King.” 11-29-12

Proofread the sentences below and write them correctly. 23. Whom do you think is the more famous literary hero of all time? 24. No one knows for sure whether Arthur was a real person or not some say he was a military man but others think he was a member of Royalty. 11-30-12