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1 Common Core Standards: WHST.11-12.4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. SL.11-12.5 Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest. MENTOR FORMS DUE TODAY SAT Word: paradigm: an example that is a perfect pattern or model EQ: What words and phrases are part of the English language that someone from Shakespeare’s time wouldn’t understand? Present 10-20 Things History of the English Language Watch Spiderman English IV Saunders, Owens, & Mere 2/9/11 Computers Folders Nametags Computers Folders Nametags

2 Early (Brief) History of the English Language Old English 500-1100 The Norman Conquest 1066 Middle English 1100-1500 Latin & French Influence

3 Old English: Beowulf ReadingBeowulf Reading (4) Oft Scyld Scéfing sceaþena þréatum Often Scyld, Scef’s son, from enemy hosts (5) monegum maégþum meodosetla oftéah from many peoples seized mead-benches; (6) egsode Eorle syððan aérest wearð and terrorized the fearsome Heruli after first he was (7) féasceaft funden hé þæs frófre gebád found helpless and destitute, he then knew recompense for that:- (8) wéox under wolcnum· weorðmyndum þáh he waxed under the clouds, throve in honours, (9) oð þæt him aéghwylc þára ymbsittendra until to him each of the bordering tribes (10) ofer hronráde hýran scolde, beyond the whale-road had to submit, (11) gomban gyldan· þæt wæs gód cyning. and yield tribute:- that was a good king!

4 Middle English: “The Pardoner’s Tale” This olde man gan looke in his visage, And saide thus, "For I ne can nat finde A man, though that I walked into Inde, Neither in citee ne in no village, That wolde chaunge his youthe for myn age; And therefore moot I han myn age stille, As longe time as it is Goddes wille. This ancient man looked upon his visage And thus replied: “Because I cannot find A man, nay, though I walked from here to Ind, Either in town or country who’ll engage To give his youth in barter for my age; And therefore must I keep my old age still, As long a time as it shall be God’s will.

5 Do you think this is Old, Middle, or Modern English? Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And Summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And oft' is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd…

6 “The Anglo-Saxons” *We'd like to dedicate this song to our friends, the former inhabitants of the British Isles.* they use to paint their bodies blue a couple of them might be distantly related to you according to Caesar they shaved their entire bodies except for the upper lip and the head a sub-literate bunch of buys but some sources say otherwise yeah the Anglo-Saxons Yeah, they were men on a mission, Preserving their poetry by oral tradition Yeah, oral tradition is all you get Until Saint Augustine brought in the alphabet. Yeah, the Anglo-Saxons Yeah, the Anglo-Saxons, In 1065 they were ragin' But 1066 brought the Norman Invasion. Yeah, the Anglo-Saxons


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