OBJ ... Students will identify, define, and make connections with classic root words. Students will take notes over podcasts about Anglo Saxon England and Beowulf, generate questions based on the information gathered, and will discern and summarize the most important points.
Warm-Up ...
Root words are common building blocks of a great deal of the English language - understanding root words increases our ability to deduce the meanings of many college level vocabulary words. Using online resources, find the meanings of the common root words below and list 3 words containing that root and share the root's meaning and post your results to your blog ...
Example ...
AUDI - to hear ... examples, audience, audible, audio,
BENE
BIO
CHRONO
- Printed copies of the college app essay final draft should be turned in with the peer review questions stapled to the back today - it must also be submitted electronically through Edmodo (and is late unless you made prior arrangement with me). Questions about this? You need to see me today ... not knowing how to do something is not an acceptable excuse now or ever).
- Those who are finished will need to watch two video segments dealing with Anglo Saxon England and with Beowulf (and complete Cornell Notes) over them.
- The template for Cornell Notes is here and should work with Word Online (you may have to save the file and open it with Word Online .. or possibly Google Docs).
- The first video segment is "Introducing the Anglo Saxons"
- Our Essential Question(s) is/are ... "Who were the Anglo Saxons? What were they like? How are they relevant to our study of British Literature?"
- Introducing the Anglo Saxons
- The second video segment is "Introducing the Beowulf Poem"
***CORRECTION ... YouTube is blocked on the student wifi, apparently, so we will watch the first clip and take C-Notes as a class today ... if you are absent and reading this, you will have to watch clip one as your make-up work and take C-Notes over it***
