Sept. 21st, 2009
Grade 9:
This week I have covered format for Book Report. The Book Report is due October 21st.
We are reading the short story "Borders" page 46 of Crossroads 9. Students will be writing a character sketch of the narrator's mother in the story.
Friday the classes will be writing a quiz on vocabulary (root words and vocabulary from short stories) See previous week's blogs too for words.
Vocabulary for “Borders”, page 46
citizenship: belonging to a country; a person can either be born into citizenship, or be “naturalized”, which means the person applies for citizenship, studies about the country, writes and passes tests about the country, and then before a judge, swears allegiance to that country.
cowhands (cowboy): a person who works on a ranch
magnificent: extravagant, exceptionally fine
concern: worried
Utah: state of the United States
firearm: gun
resort accommodations of above usual standards.
duty-free shop: no duty or taxes on products; goods must be taken out of the country
New Root Words:
cede, ceed, cess: move, go, withdraw, yield
Examples: cede: to give up something, or surrender something
accessible: convenient, easy to get to a place
proceed: to move or go forward
chron: time
Examples: chronic: recurring over a long time
chronological: arranged according to time
chronicle: a recording of a time period (Anglo-Saxon Chronicles)
synchronous: occurring at the same time, (live discussion boards)
asynchronous: can be done anytime (on-line discussions but not live)
cid, cis: to cut, to kill
Examples: incision: to cut as in surgery
suicide: to kill ones self
homicide: murder
incisor: tooth for cutting food
civi: Citizen
Examples: civic: of a city, or citizenship (civic holiday, would be associate with a city holiday)
civilian: a person not in the armed forces.
civil-rights: the rights of the citizens
civil: people acting politely
corpor: body
Examples: corporal: of the body, physical presence
corps: group of body of soldiers trained for a purpose: medical corps
corpulent: a fat body
habeas corpus: an order to bring a person before a judge
Grade 12
Monday we shall finish Beowulf.
Tuesday: a test on the first literary period, along with dates and names of the other periods.
Wednesday: "Dream of the Rood" (on the 12 English web site, linked from Students on the GMCS web home page. (Google GMCS home page).
Thursday: Begin Literary Period 2, The Anglo-Norman Period. Notes will be on the blog.
Notes for Anglo-Norman period:
II. Anglo-Norman Period, 1066-1350
The Anglo-Norman Period began with the conquering of Harold, the last of the Saxon Kings, at the Battle of Hastings, in October 1066, by William of Normandy. Three consequences of the Norman Conquest to the country and subsequently to its literature were:
· The Normans reintroduced the Roman culture, at a time culture was declining.
· The Normans forced a national ideal on England, giving a strong central government to replace the loose authority of the Saxon chief over his tribesmen.
· The Normans brought the wealth of a new language and literature, and our English absorbed both.
Writers:
Geoffrey de Monmouth (d.1154) Geoffrey’s Historia Regum Britanniæ (written in Latin) became a source book for later writers. Shakespeare’s King Lear, Malory’s Morte d’ Arthur, and Tennyson’s Idylls of the King were founded on this work.
Layamon (c1200) Brut This poem is about the early settlers of Britain. It begins with the destruction of Troy, and the flight of “Æneas the duke” into Italy. Brutus, a great-grandson of Æneas, gathers his people and sets out to find a new land in the west. Then follows the founding of the Briton kingdom, and the last third of the poem, which is over thirty thousand lines in length, is taken up with the history of Arthur and his knights.
Literary Forms of the Period:
Two literary forms developed during this period, the romance and the ballad.
The ballad developed out of the French, Chansons de Geste, songs celebrating great deeds. The best known was a series of ballads called The Geste of Robin Hood.
The romance also developed. The romance was a long narrative poem, about knights dealing with themes of virtue. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was one of the best of these romances.
Other poems of this period:
In the same manuscript with Sir Gawain, three other poems were found:
“The Pearl” the story of a father grieving for the death of his daughter, his “precious pearl without spot”.
“Cleanness” Moralizes on the basis of Bible stories.
“Patience” is a paraphrase of the Book of Jonah.
Grade 9:
This week I have covered format for Book Report. The Book Report is due October 21st.
We are reading the short story "Borders" page 46 of Crossroads 9. Students will be writing a character sketch of the narrator's mother in the story.
Friday the classes will be writing a quiz on vocabulary (root words and vocabulary from short stories) See previous week's blogs too for words.
Vocabulary for “Borders”, page 46
citizenship: belonging to a country; a person can either be born into citizenship, or be “naturalized”, which means the person applies for citizenship, studies about the country, writes and passes tests about the country, and then before a judge, swears allegiance to that country.
cowhands (cowboy): a person who works on a ranch
magnificent: extravagant, exceptionally fine
concern: worried
Utah: state of the United States
firearm: gun
resort accommodations of above usual standards.
duty-free shop: no duty or taxes on products; goods must be taken out of the country
New Root Words:
cede, ceed, cess: move, go, withdraw, yield
Examples: cede: to give up something, or surrender something
accessible: convenient, easy to get to a place
proceed: to move or go forward
chron: time
Examples: chronic: recurring over a long time
chronological: arranged according to time
chronicle: a recording of a time period (Anglo-Saxon Chronicles)
synchronous: occurring at the same time, (live discussion boards)
asynchronous: can be done anytime (on-line discussions but not live)
cid, cis: to cut, to kill
Examples: incision: to cut as in surgery
suicide: to kill ones self
homicide: murder
incisor: tooth for cutting food
civi: Citizen
Examples: civic: of a city, or citizenship (civic holiday, would be associate with a city holiday)
civilian: a person not in the armed forces.
civil-rights: the rights of the citizens
civil: people acting politely
corpor: body
Examples: corporal: of the body, physical presence
corps: group of body of soldiers trained for a purpose: medical corps
corpulent: a fat body
habeas corpus: an order to bring a person before a judge
Grade 12
Monday we shall finish Beowulf.
Tuesday: a test on the first literary period, along with dates and names of the other periods.
Wednesday: "Dream of the Rood" (on the 12 English web site, linked from Students on the GMCS web home page. (Google GMCS home page).
Thursday: Begin Literary Period 2, The Anglo-Norman Period. Notes will be on the blog.
Notes for Anglo-Norman period:
II. Anglo-Norman Period, 1066-1350
The Anglo-Norman Period began with the conquering of Harold, the last of the Saxon Kings, at the Battle of Hastings, in October 1066, by William of Normandy. Three consequences of the Norman Conquest to the country and subsequently to its literature were:
· The Normans reintroduced the Roman culture, at a time culture was declining.
· The Normans forced a national ideal on England, giving a strong central government to replace the loose authority of the Saxon chief over his tribesmen.
· The Normans brought the wealth of a new language and literature, and our English absorbed both.
Writers:
Geoffrey de Monmouth (d.1154) Geoffrey’s Historia Regum Britanniæ (written in Latin) became a source book for later writers. Shakespeare’s King Lear, Malory’s Morte d’ Arthur, and Tennyson’s Idylls of the King were founded on this work.
Layamon (c1200) Brut This poem is about the early settlers of Britain. It begins with the destruction of Troy, and the flight of “Æneas the duke” into Italy. Brutus, a great-grandson of Æneas, gathers his people and sets out to find a new land in the west. Then follows the founding of the Briton kingdom, and the last third of the poem, which is over thirty thousand lines in length, is taken up with the history of Arthur and his knights.
Literary Forms of the Period:
Two literary forms developed during this period, the romance and the ballad.
The ballad developed out of the French, Chansons de Geste, songs celebrating great deeds. The best known was a series of ballads called The Geste of Robin Hood.
The romance also developed. The romance was a long narrative poem, about knights dealing with themes of virtue. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was one of the best of these romances.
Other poems of this period:
In the same manuscript with Sir Gawain, three other poems were found:
“The Pearl” the story of a father grieving for the death of his daughter, his “precious pearl without spot”.
“Cleanness” Moralizes on the basis of Bible stories.
“Patience” is a paraphrase of the Book of Jonah.
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