HAPPY NEW YEAR!Monday, September 17, 2012

•Enter the classroom quietly.•Pick up your daily handout for the day.•Block 1: Turn in your personal statement to Homework Bin.•Blocks 2 and 4: Leave your thesis/ purpose statement sheet on your desk.•Begin reading silently.•If you are not reading silently and seated in your chair by the bell, you automatically lose 10 points for IR.

The Graduation Project.Your opportunity to

establish your college readiness skills

The importance of public speaking and writing: real life applications, college readiness, persuasion.

Connections, community involvement, global awareness, resume building, etc.

Our Class Big Goal

We will be advocates for our community.

We will be college ready and college bound.

100% of English IV seniors

will be accepted to college.

Why should we care?Fear of public speaking is known as

Glossophobia

74% of Americans suffer from speech anxiety.

What does that mean for our society? Our education system?

What does that mean for us and our classroom?

College writing:

http://pledgingforchange.com/lifestyle/education/7-must-have-tips-for-college-writing.php

Thesis StatementsWHAT DO YOU WANT YOUR AUDIENCE TO

THINK WHEN YOU WALK AWAY?Tells the reader how you will interpret

the significance of the subject matter under discussion.

Is a road map for the paper; in other words, it tells the reader what to expect from the rest of the paper.

Body = 3 Main PointsBody - THREE MAIN POINTS—

WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO KNOW TO BELIEVE ME?Problem/HistoryCauses and/or EffectsSolution

Statement of Purpose

General Purpose: To persuade

Specific Purpose (Examples): Today, I am here to persuade you that United

States’ college systems should enact a suicide prevention program for college students.

Today, I am here to convince you that United States’ college systems should enact a suicide prevention program for college students. (solution is statement of purpose)

What 3 things does your audience need to know in

order to believe your purpose statement?

**Please note: These 3 things will become your 3 body points! Think carefully!

My 3 body points:PROBLEM - analyze and understand the severity of

this problem CAUSES - discover the causes behind student suicide SOLUTION - the necessity of requiring students to

take a year class about the subject and enacting a zero tolerance program in response to attempts

Further ResearchResearch Questions – WHAT ELSE DO

I NEED TO KNOW IN ORDER TO DELIVER AN EFFECTIVE PRESENTATION? Our research is not done because

writing a research paper is very different from giving a persuasive speech.

A lot could have happened in the past year – you must incorporate necessary current events.

Preview Statement What is it?

General overview of what you will discuss In most cases, your three body points should be

included. This should lay out the framework for your speech so that listeners have a clear picture of what is coming next!

Example? In order for you to fully grasp the importance of

digital technology, I will begin by telling you what society was like without it and then discuss some of the ways that digital technology has revolutionized important parts of our society.

My Preview StatementIn order to understand how we can

end this crisis in our colleges, we must, first, analyze and understand the severity of this problem, second, discover the causes behind student suicide, and finally, discuss the necessity of requiring students to take a year class about the subject and enacting a zero tolerance program in response to attempts.

DUE TOMORROW:On a separate piece of paper…

Statement of Purposei.e. Today I am here to convince you that…

Preview StatementIn order to understand ______, first we must…,

second we must…, and then we must….Summary of Body Points

Problem/HistoryCauses and/or EffectsSolution

Research QuestionsWhat else do you need to know in order to

make your presentation current and effective?

STOP AND JOT!What do you think the following lines from

Beowulf reveal about the role of storytelling in Anglo-Saxon society? Please write your thoughts.!

“And sometimes a proud old soldier

Who had heard songs of the ancient heroes

And could sing them all through, story after story,

Would weave a net of words…”

Why English? What is English?

An introduction to our language

old english

The Rise of the English Language

Latin was the language of study in England until the reign of King Alfred.

The Old English we just listened to was a chronicle preserved by anonymous scribes tells a tale of weak kings, greedy abbots, and proud barons.

The Evolution and Creation of Language

English we speak today vs. original English

Every day hundreds of new words enter the language and many are dropped.

The language is spoken in many dialects around the world.

The language is constantly evolving.

Think, Pair, ShareFind a partner.

Think of at least 3 words that you would guess have either recently been added to the dictionary or that you predict will be added to the dictionary in the next several years. Think about:

New inventionsInformal language used (slang)

Beyonce in the Dictionary

Other recently added words…

Abdominoplasty

Agroterrorism

Blowback

Celebutante

Crunk

Hoody (hoodie)

Mesotherapy

Obesogenic

Tri-band

Upskill

Yogalates

What will these words tell others about our society in several hundred

years???

Oxford English Dictionary

From The Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English

So where did English evolve from?

The country we now call England Great Britain = England +

Scotland + WalesModern Nation United

Kingdom = Great Britain + Northern Ireland

Understanding where the English we speak today came from requires that we understand what happened in England throughout its history…

A note about time periods…

How time works: Years are either BC or ADThere is no year 0… we went from 1BC to AD 1.This system began in the 6th Century, AD

BC (Before Christ) All years BEFORE the birth of Christ

AD (Anno Domini- In the year of our Lord)All years after the birth of Christ (1AD and on)We are currently in AD 2009.

Today, politically correctToday, often you will not see the terms AD and

BC used. Why are these terms not politically correct?

Today, these terms are replaced by the Common Era.AD = CE (Common Era)BC = BCE (Before the Common Era)

BC/AD Timeline

Going from BC to AD can be kind of confusing because BC works backwards from what we know.

If we were living in BC, next year would be 2008

300 BC 55 BC Birth of Christ AD 1

AD 449 AD 793 AD 1066

Brain Break: Joke time!Why did the stoplight turn red?

Wouldn’t you if you had to change in the middle of the street?

CELTS

300s B.C.

The Celts (kelts)- 300s BCPERIOD OF ENGLISH: None.

Britons- the original group of Celts that lived in England hence the name, Britain.

Language: CelticWelsh, Scottish, Gaelic and Irish are all forms of the

Celtic language Not many of their words appear in English

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/celts/pages/audio.shtml

ROMANS

55 B.C.

CELTS

300s B.C.

The Romans 55 BC- AD 409

PERIOD OF ENGLISH: None.

Invaded in 55 BC under Julius Caesar.

Language: Latin

Religion: PaganChristianity was first introduced during Roman

timesWere originally polytheistic- many gods

Janus

ROMANS

55 B.C.

ANGLES,

SAXONS,

JUTES

449

CELTS

300s B.C.

The Anglo-Saxons- 449-1066

PERIOD OF ENGLISH: Old English

Two tribes from Northwest coastline of Europe: Angles Saxons

Literature and language not written down before the 7th century (600s)- spoke Germanic language (French, German, Dutch)

Began to have records of the language when King Alfred created The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a running history of England. “English” begins- AD 800s

ROMANS

55 B.C.

ANGLES,

SAXONS,

JUTES

449

VIKINGS

793

CELTS

300s B.C.

The Vikings- AD 793PERIOD OF ENGLISH: Old English

AKA the Norse/Norsemen, Danes

Slightly more advanced language

Words we took from the Norse: TakeTheyGive

ROMANS

55 B.C.

ANGLES,

SAXONS,

JUTES

449

VIKINGS

793

NORMANS

1066

CELTS

300s B.C.

The Normans- 1066PERIOD OF ENGLISH: Middle English

From France

Brought a great deal of French and Latin to the languageMoving more toward the English we speak today

Differences between Old English and Modern

EnglishDifferences in letters

Use of æ to represent the sound of “a” in hat

Differences in VocabularyOld English is a purely Germanic vocabulary with

no words derived from Greek, Latin, or French.Our current language uses many of those

languages as roots.

Greater use of InflectionsNouns, adjectives, and even the definite article are

inflected for gender, case, and number.Ex: Present participles (-ende instead of –ing) Past Participles bore a prefix ge- (as in

“geandwyrd” for “answered.”

THE BOTTOM LINE: Britain started out with the Celts and their Celtic

language (300s BC).

The Romans came and introduced Latin (55 BC).

The Anglo-Saxons added their Germanic language to create Old English (AD 446).

The French (through William of Normandy) added French and created Middle English (1066).

Things like the printing press stabilized the language and moved it toward Modern English (1600s).

Dialects arose as a result of colonization.

Exit Slip: Complete on separate sheet of paper. Flip over when completed. 1. Please place the following events on the timeline below (1 point each): _____ _____ _____ _____300BC 55 BC 800s 1066a. Romans invade Britainb. “English” first referred to as a languagec. Normans invade Englandd. Celts live in Britain 2. In order, what are the three distinct periods of English language evolution?

a. Middle, Old, Currentb. Old, Middle, Modern c. Ancient, Old, Middled. Old, Modern, Middle

 3. What was the language of study in England until the reign of King Alfred?

a. Latinb. Celticc. Englishd. French

 4. Which event signaled the beginning of Middle English?a. The invasion of the Romansb. The publication of The Anglo-Saxon Chroniclec. The works of Shakespeared. The invasion of the Normans

5. Under which king was English first introduced?6. What countries are in Great Britain? 

 

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