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This email provides information about changes to the calendar, a presentation by the guidance department, MLA heading guidelines, and Turnitin.com instructions.
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Welcome to Honors English 4! epeters@northallegheny.org (724) 935 - 7200 Elaine Peters
Change on calendar • Tuesday, September 8th • Guidance department presentation • Covers graduation/college application procedures • Bring any questions to ask during the presentation Elaine Peters
MLA Heading • Student name • Teacher name • Course name/period • Date of final draft submission: September 1, 2015 • Skip one space and include title • Skip another space and begin introduction • Share w/ Ms. Peters on google.docs Elaine Peters
Turnitin.com information • Class ID# 10524497 • Password: CHAUCER (YES, IT IS CASE-SENSITIVE SO USE ALL CAPS) • Hard copy of paper due tomorrow. You have until 11:59 PM Friday to submit to turnitin.com to avoid -10% penalty. Elaine Peters
Sample parenthetical citation: Alan Paton demonstrates the theme of hope and reconciliation through the wise words of the character Arthur Jarvis, who envisions a new way of thinking for those who enjoy the privilege of white minority rule: “We believe in help for the underdog, but we want him to stay under” (Paton 187). Elaine Peters
Due tomorrow: • Completed introductory paragraph • Three body paragraphs, including cited lines from each poem as support • We will write our conclusion paragraph in class and revise existing piece for style and word choice • Set up your turnitin account ASAP Elaine Peters
Today’s learning goals: • Discuss ideas for writing an effective conclusion and compose closing to essay. • Review “signal words” to replace overused word choice in essay. • Review advanced syntax techniques to add elevated style in essay. Elaine Peters
Over the weekend: • Revise and edit essay. Print out double-spaced hard copy to submit to Ms. Peters on Monday. • Submit essay to turnitin.com. Classroom id# and passwords are on Ms. Peters’ website. You have until 11:59 on Monday to do this without a penalty. Elaine Peters
Please do the following: • Staple rubric as last page of essay. • Turnitin.com submission due by 11:59 this evening. Elaine Peters
Did you submit to turnitin.com? • Today’s learning goals: • Share and type cited line for poster. Print. Select NASHLIBPR1 and NASHLIBPR2 (color) • Begin sketch for poster. • Choose point of view for persona writings and select cited quotations. • Look at model for found poem and choose point of view. Elaine Peters
Please do the following by the end of the period: • Proofread and edit poem and personas. Follow heading and formatting instructions on rubric. Please single space poem only. Print in library and give to Ms. Peters. • Finish and embellish poster. Get name placard. Show to Ms. Peters to hang on wall. Elaine Peters
Upcoming schedule: Today: Finish VWS unit one/take VOCAB/SYNTAX “quiz” (counts as a classwork grade) Monday: Meet in room #263, then we will go to library MPR for counselling department presentation Tuesday: VWS unit one review game/test Elaine Peters
Key words to consider for the Emergence of the British Isles • INVASION • WARFARE • SURVIVAL • RELIGION • KINSHIP Elaine Peters
Map of the British IslesA series of invasions come across the North Sea from Scandinavia---Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland Elaine Peters
Anglo-Saxon England • Precursor to our modern language • “Old English” • Weapon of choice? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNF00fSxSkA Elaine Peters
Old English Greetings • Ic grete pe. (I greet you!) • Wilcuman la mine hlafordas. (Welcome, my lords!) • Brodor min (My brother…) • Sweostor min (My sister…) • Beowulf is min nama. (My name is Beowulf.) • Gesunde! (Farewell!) Elaine Peters
Kinship: The Mead Hall • Area where sea warriors would congregate for warmth, kinship, and rest • Mead would be served • Sea warriors would share tales of their adventures, often mourning their losses and celebrating their victories • Scops, or bards, would recite/sing tales of victory and defeat • Riddles would be presented for entertainment Elaine Peters
Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England Elaine Peters
Elegy poem • Solemn in tone • Concerns the acceptance of death or loss • Formal style with single speaker • Reflective in its nature • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqn-tSa1wYY Elaine Peters
Development of the British Isles: The EmergentPeriod Elaine Peters
Anglo-Saxon Riddles Our world is lovely in different ways, Hung with beauty and works of hands. I saw a STRANGE MACHINE, make For motion, slide against the sand, Shrieking as it went. It walked swiftly On its only foot, this ODD-SHAPED MONSTER, Traveled in an OPEN COUNTRY without seeing, without arms or hands, With many ribs, and its mouth in its middle. Its belly with food, and brings abundance To me, to poor and to rich, paying Its tribute year after year. Solve This riddle, if you can, and unravel its name. Elaine Peters
I am puffed-breasted, proud-crested, A head I have, and a high tail, Eyes and ears and one foot, Both my sides, a back that’s hollow, A very stout beak, a steeple neck And a HOME ABOVE MEN. Harsh are my sufferings When that which makes the forest tremble Takes me and shakes me. Here I stand under streaming rain And blinding sleet, stoned by hail; Freezes the frost and falls the snow On me stuck-bellied. And I stick it all out For I cannot bribe the chance that made me. Elaine Peters
On the back of your quiz: Delineate the three major invasions that have lead to the emergence of what we know today as the British Isles. Label each group of invaders and how they influenced their settlement (what did they bring/for what are they known?) Three bonus points Elaine Peters
Beowulf • is the national epic of England---a long narrative poem that tells of the battles and challenges of a “larger-than-life” hero. • is a good example of oral art; the poem was passed down through the generations by adding changes and embellishments from one minstrel to another. These minstrels played music and were also called scops or bards. • was composed in Old English. The manuscript of the poem dates back to the year 795. It is now in the British Museum in London. Elaine Peters
Background to the legend • Beowulf tells the story of Beowulf, a Geat from Sweden, who crosses the sea to Denmark in a quest to rescue King Hrothgar from the demonic monster Grendel. • Setting of the poem: Herot, the Danish Mead Hall http://www.theworld.org/2013/08/archaeologists-beowulf-legend/ • Biblical reference: Grendel’s ancestor, who “spawned into a thousand forms of evil” Elaine Peters
Anepic herois the central figure in an epic who has superior qualities and risks personal danger to pursue a grand quest.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooj25_j3k1E Elaine Peters
Anglo-Saxon idea of Comitatus • Comitatus is the honor code between the king and his army in which the lord gives shelter and riches to his men, in exchange for protection. • Beowulf, who is the strongest of all men, defends the hall of King Hrothgar. Because the Danes cannot fulfill the comitatus code of defending their king, Beowulf provides the strength and courage needed to defeat the monster, Grendel. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj96XYhwTFI Elaine Peters
Kennings: Both old and new eternal joy: heaven sea-stallion: ship Mighty Water Witch: Grendel’s mother battle-dew: blood heaven’s candle: sun axis of evil: The Taliban The Steel Curtain: Pittsburgh Steelers’ defense Elaine Peters
Interlacing interweaving of motifs, images, formulas in clothing, armor, and artistic design Elaine Peters
Themes in Beowulf 1. Comitatus/loyalty 2. Mental acuity/intelligence 3. Wisdom 4. Reputation/legacy 5. Good vs. evil 6. Christian influences Elaine Peters
Beowulf in the 21st century • Although Beowulf is an Old English epic, some of the ideas and values in it are still prominent in our lives. Think of two modern “Grendels”---different problems that have plagued the world today. Then, think of the “Beowulfs” upon which the world relies to fight them. Elaine Peters
Beowulf, The Strongest of the Geats and his three major battles: • First he battles with Grendel in Herot • Then he battles with Grendel’s mother (“Big Mama”) at the bottom of the foul lake • Fifty years later, he battles the fiery dragon Elaine Peters
ON THE BACK OF YOUR QUIZ: Compose an original sentence regarding the role of the scop/bard in Anglo-Saxon culture. • Independent clause ; conjunctive adverb, independent clause. • EXAMPLE: The maiden joined the king, queen, and the royal court; therefore, the townspeople quickly assembled. Elaine Peters
ON THE BACK OF YOUR QUIZ: Using a double-dash, compose an original sentence that defines the importance of comitatus to the Anglo-Saxons. • --- non-essential --- (double dash contained within an independent clause) . EXAMPLE: The maiden---knowing the end was near---started to tremble. Elaine Peters
The boast Peters, daughter of Irish Donald, the great doctor of sight and Mary, the beloved piano instructor of her town. Elaine, believer in humanities education, earned her degree at that college amid the lush golf greens, Mastered her studies in British literature at the university in Columbus. Teacher of her prize-winning students---those sleepy-headed beasts with their stifled yawns and drooping eyelids. She will fight to conquer the dreaded enemy with her single weapon: fear---of tests, of timed essays, of all that an honors class demands. Elaine Peters
Now you try it… 1. State your name and heritage--- using high-blown diction in describing your parents’ occupations/personalities/etc. 2. Boast about three accomplishments plus one accomplishment to come. 3. Include at least two kennings and some alliterative phrases. 4. Share your boast. Elaine Peters
On your card: 1. Give yourself a free space. 2. Include all of the words; you will have to double up on two, but not in the same row! 3. Mark a dot with your pencil when you match the clue to the word. You can win vertically, horizontally or diagonally only. 4. Bingo winners get a candy prize! Elaine Peters
Top Three “Seafarer” Essay Concerns: 1. The writer neglected to mention all aspects of the topic in analysis---no mention of Anglo-Saxon oral tradition. 2. The writer neglected to include a signal phrase which provides brief context and introduces cited support. WRONG: He says, “Hunger tore at my sea-weary soul” (11-12). Elaine Peters
CORRECT: • The Seafarer conveys that he must sacrifice even the most basic of human needs---food---to complete his heroic duty: “Hunger tore at my sea-weary soul” (11-12). Here he utilizes personification to express his powerfully ravenous hunger while at sea. 3. The writer fails to provide precise, vivid verbs. • WRONG: The Seafarer says/states/writes… • CORRECT: The Seafarer delineates/provides/laments/conveys… Elaine Peters
In your closing: • Your conclusion should enhance your essay; too abrupt an ending leaves your reader suddenly cut off. • First restate your thesis (in a different way) and add any final conclusions. Do not summarize; do not be redundant. • End memorably: call for awareness and/or action, point to the future, echo the techniques you used to hook your reader in your introduction… Elaine Peters
“The Seafarer” essay reminders: 1. Include brief Anglo-Saxon historical and literary context in your introduction paragraph, then transition to your thesis. • Include precise topic sentences. • Provide clear signal phrases/tags that include the speaker and prepare the reader for the quotation. The Seafarer clearly dedicates himself to his duty as a sea solider. The speaker expresses his sense of dutifulobligation when he reflects in a parallel phrase, “how often, how wearily,/ I put myself back on the paths of the sea” (29 - 30). His calling to serve and to defend his homeland reveals itself throughout the poem: “And how my heart/Would begin to bear, knowing once more/…the towering sea!”(33-34). In these lines, the Seafarer conveys to his fellows comrades in the mead hall his passion for service as a mariner. Elaine Peters
Revision resources to help you improve the style of your essay: • Signal words sheet eliminates passive voice and bland, repetitive verbs • Syntax patterns add (at least) one per paragraph to elevate mechanics and add panache to your essay • Rhetorical devices try to include one in your closing paragraph; it provides emphasis Elaine Peters
Unit test on Friday • 70 points • multiple choice/matching/passage explication/short answer • covers unit history and terminology • Seafarer terminology and text • Beowulf terminology and text (pay particular attention to speeches by Hrothgar, Unferth, Wiglaf, and Beowulf) Elaine Peters
Once you have finished your essay: • Staple the rubric to the back of your essay and place it in the “to be graded” box located on the supply table at the front of the room. Elaine Peters
Discussion topics: • Group #1: Comitatus/loyalty • Group #2: Mental acuity • Group #3: Fortitude and wisdom • Group #4: Honor and reputation • Group #5: Glory and treasure • Group #6: Good vs. evil • Group #7: Christian influence Elaine Peters
Group tasks: • Discuss the assigned topic within your group. Include several textual examples that are covered throughout Beowulf. • Take detailed notes, as these will serve you well in preparation for next week’s two-day unit test on Anglo-Saxon literature. • Share your findings with Mrs. Peters. Elaine Peters
Steps for writing an in-class essay • Pre-write your thoughts • Arrange thoughts in a multi-paragraph format • Keep intro brief---three to four sentences. • Incorporate textual/cited examples • Proofread before you submit • Use a pen, and cross out small errors • Write neatly and keep your eye on the clock! Elaine Peters
Common pitfalls with in-class essays • Misreading of the topic---pay attention to all aspects. • Too much time spent outlining and organizing thoughts---do this ahead of time! • Too much time spent on intro, leaving inadequate time for other paragraphs, OR too little attention paid to paragraph (no literary/historical context). • Quotes take too long to locate and lack precise/varied verb usage. Use SIGNAL WORDS. • Conclusion is hastily written. • Failure to proofread. (Parallelism/pronoun agreement/lack of a topic sentence/trite phrase,…) • Remember: YOU WILL IMPROVE! Elaine Peters
Heroic narrative poems were told by skilled minstrels called _______________. • Anglo-Saxon poets held an honored position in society primarily because . . . • To create vivid images, the Anglo-Saxon poets created metaphors called ______________. • Some themes which typify Anglo-Saxon poetry might be . . . • An epic is _______________. Elaine Peters
