Homework

Write up your notes about the “Dark Ages”, the Anglo-Saxon times. Upload to Manaba by Wednesday midnight as usual.  Try to use your new APA Template. You should include:

1. When the Anglo-Saxons came,
2. Where they came from
3. Why they came
4. Where they came and settled (talk about and explain Wessex, Sussex and Essex)
5. what language they spoke
6. A brief introduction to King Arthur and his legend
7. The Viking/Danish invasions (when, where from, where to)
8. King Alfred the Great (who he was, when he lived, what he did that was famous, why he is called “the Great”).
9. If possible, use your template you made last week with APA formatting.

Today’s class

1. Were you able to see my two files (*.htm and *.rtf) with my corrections and comments to your writing? Were they useful to you? (If you were absent from class today, please email me your answer to this question.)
2. Release forms from students for
   1. this class
   2. for public use (including publication)
3. Academic writing rules:
   1. Avoid non-academic language (conversational English, contractions like “don’t”,  “isn’t”, etc.)
   2. Don’t begin new sentences with “And”, “But” or “Because” but instead keep them as part of the same sentence.
   3. One paragraph, one topic. New topic, new paragraphs. Keep sentences about the same topic together.
4. The Anglo-Saxons. Key points:
   1. Where they came from (see the maps here)
   2. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
      1. Merlin the Magician
      2. Guinevere
      3. Sir Lancelot
      4. Excalibur (Arthur’s sword)
   3. They spoke Anglo-Saxon (not Celtic, not Latin), which is also called Old English.
      1. Here is part of an Anglo-Saxon poem called the Battle of Maldon which was a battle between the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings (Danes) which took place in 911 A.D. (The Vikings won!) Can you recognize any modern English words in this Old English text?

1. the monk Bede and his History of the English Church (written in Latin of course because Bede was a monk) and later translated into Anglo-Saxon by King Alfred.
2. King Alfred the Great, Danegeld, Danelaw

Bonus – Celtic videos

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