Welcome to Class!
Today is Tuesday, October 1
Warm Up:
Please make the following revisions on the Summative Assessment handout from yesterday:
1. Under directions, change “current (2013) event” to “in my lifetime, not already on timelines or in videos” event.
2. For size, please change 8 ½ x 11” to 12 x 18”
Due date = Tuesday, October 15th.
Are there any new questions about your project?
What’s on for today...
Agenda:
Introduction to Old English & some literary terms
Learning Targets:
I can identify, analyze the effect of and create the following:
Guiding Question: What can we learn from the manuscripts and literature of the Anglo-Saxons? What are some formal elements of Anglo-Saxon poetry?
Terms & Definitions
Learning Targets:
I can identify, analyze the effect of and create the following:
Riddles…word puzzles!
In the Dark Ages, a time thought to be barbaric and violent, beauty was prized in visual ornamentation and in literary elaboration. The Anglo-Saxons loved them! They told each other riddles as well as listened to poems at their feasts. Some riddles have survived as playground rhymes.
Terms & Definitions
Learning Targets:
I can identify, analyze the effect of and create the following:
Kenning...a literary device in which a poetic phrase is substituted for a noun.
The best kennings have one element that creates a striking, unexpected comparison. They provide powerful imagery and helped the audience focus on the storyteller (“scop”, in A-S times). A kenning also allowed variety so words did not get overused. Some kennings also have alliteration.
"So, what could a ship be? A wave floater, sea goer, sea-house or sea steed. And the sea? A seal bath, fish home, swan road or whale way. Anything could be described using a kenning. A woman is a peace-weaver, a traveller is an earth-walker, a sword is a wolf of wounds, the sun is a sky candle, the sky is the curtain of the gods, blood is battle sweat or battle icicle. There are hundreds more."
(David Crystal, The Story of English in 100 Words. St. Martin's Press, 2012)
Kenning Worksheet terms
Helpful Definitions…
Rhythm = the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in language. Twinkle twinkle little star.
Imagery = figurative device where vivid or figurative language is used to represent objects, actions or ideas. Ideas visited his brain like tiny butterflies--landing lightly, flitting and pulsing, then taking flight again.
Consonance = repetition of the final consonant sounds in accented syllables. 'First and last,' 'odds and ends,' 'short and sweet,' 'a stroke of luck,'
Rhyme = to end with a sound that corresponds to another end sound. "I am not a lean mean spitting machine." (Bart Simpson, The Simpsons)
Assonance = the repetition of vowel sounds in words near one another. "Strips of tinfoil winking like people" (Sylvia Plath, "The Bee Meeting")
Terms & Definitions
Learning Targets:
I can identify, analyze the effect of and create the following:
Caesura… (Latin: “a cutting”) A break or pause in a line of poetry, dictated by the natural rhythm of language.
In Old English verse...
The caesura was used to indicate the half line.
Terms & Definitions
Learning Targets:
I can identify, analyze the effect of and create the following:
Riddle
Kenning
Caesura
Alliteration
Alliteration...A figure of speech in which consonants, especially at the beginning of words or stressed syllables are repeated. In Old English poetry, alliteration was a continual and essential part of the metrical scheme. It is a present element in poetry on through the Middle Ages.
"I love alliteration. I love, love, love it. Alliteration just makes everything sound fantastic. I genuinely can't think of anything with matching initials that I don't like: Green Goddess, Hemel Hempstead, Bum Bags, Monster Mash, Krispy Kreme, Dirty Dozen, Peter Purves, Est Est Est, the SS, World Wide Web, Clear Cache.” ~unknown
Riddle me this...
Learning Targets:
I can identify, analyze the effect of and create the following:
Examples of Anglo Saxon Riddles…
First in Old English...
...then translated.
Label the red terms on your texts! Find them in both the translation and the Old English version!
Riddle me this...
Learning Targets:
I can identify, analyze the effect of and create the following:
Examples of Anglo Saxon Riddles…
First in Old English
then translated.
Can you find the terms in our learning targets?