CLT PAPER DUE FRIDAY, FEB. 21 BY 4:00!!
Modern English Language Issues
Documentary on Lucy Laney Elementary School takes a hard look at AAVE–African American Vernacular English (Ebonics):
Click HERE to watch this 6 minute segment about AAVE.
Click HERE to learn more about the documentary
Click HERE to learn more on the non-binary pronoun “they.”
Click HERE to learn more about the 533 new words entered into the Merriam-Webster online dictionary in Sept. 2019! 
MORE MODERN ENGLISH LANGUAGE ISSUES/PHENOMENA!
Check this guy out–fluent in 11 languages! Click HERE.
Why is English spelling so goofed up? See this article:
http://theweek.com/article/index/241375/why-english-spelling-is-so-messed-up#
Here’s an article about the “COMPUTERS FOR EVERY KID (one-to-one laptops) ISSUE”
Click computer one to one arti_001.
Great article about reading on paper vs electronically:
http://nautil.us/issue/4/the-unlikely/paper-versus-pixel
Here’s another:
GREAT GRAMMAR WEBSITE! CHECK IT OUT! BOOKMARK IT IN YOUR FAVORITES! For a fun sight to help you with grammar, go to http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/ . For example, are you splitting your infinitives and thus driving your teacher nuts? Find out what you’re doing and how to NOT split those infinitives! Click http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/split-infinitives.aspx
Today’s Quotes of the Day
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
― Dr. Seuss
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
Today’s allusion:
The Sound and the Fury
Michelle O’Neill (Lady Macbeth) in Shakespeare’s MACBETH, directed by Joe Dowling with set and costume design by Monica Frawley. On the Wurtele Thrust Stage of the Guthrie Theater from January 30 through April 3, 2010.
Today’s Words of the Day
felicity
brazen
coxcomb
stygian
umbrage
euphonic
Group Check-in:
- Weekend highlights
- Progress on CLT paper
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Punctuate Jack and Jill–maybe
Class Plan:
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ALLUSION OF THE DAY / WORDS / HW
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ANNOUNCEMENTS–
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Beowulf homework cover sheet. Click beowulf hw list only_001 copy. Who is in which COLOR GROUP and BEOWULF GROUP. -
Gilmore Girls Clip and Beloit Mindset list
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Discuss “Meaningful Work” and “Cultural Literacy” and “Faking Cultural Literacy”
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If time: Competition: ROUND 1: Hirsch, ROUND 2: Most Frequently Appearing on the AP Exam Q1, Q2, Q3, ROUND 3: Great American Read
HOMEWORK COLLECTED TODAY:
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nothing
- hand-outs
HOMEWORK TONIGHT
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Make 5 Etymology post-its for the words attached to your post-its. Choose 5 out of those words on the slips you were given.
what the front of your card should look like
We will be placing them on a language tree on the back board of the classroom.
Make sure you write each WORD in large letters in permanent marker on the top front of the post-its and in smaller letters the etymology in pencil on the lower part of the front of each post-it! For a list of all the assigned words (particularly needed if you were absent today–hint! you will still need to get post-its to do this), click HERE! Do ONE post-it per word. If you don’t have post-its, just use index-card sized paper!Here’s a sample of how to do the FRONT side of the post-it: Make sure you understand what the abbreviations mean when you look up the etymology. For example in the card above, “ME” means Middle English, “OE” means “Old English,” c means “cognate.” You do not have to worry about anything that comes after the cognate OR if it says “akin to.” This means that the cognates and the words that are akin to the target word are just words like it. What we are interested in is the earliest place the word originated and when the word actually became an actual word. In the case of the card above, you would place the card on the OE branch of the language tree (That is what Andy is doing in the picture below.)
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HISTORY OF ENGLAND and the ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOTES (3 sides minimum as described below) NOTE: you may type your notes! Please do not write any notes in complete sentences.
CLICK 2020 Hist of Eng Lang NOTES TEMPLATE FOR A WORD DOCUMENT ALREADY FORMATTED THAT YOU CAN USE TO JUST TYPE IN YOUR NOTES! REALLY SLICK!
SIDE ONE: At the top of this side–UNDER “HISTORY OF ENGLAND & ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOTES,” write “Anglo-Saxon Period.”
Take a minimum of 1 side of a page of background notes on the Anglo-Saxon Period (years 449-1066). Use our black LBT pages 1-11 and page 34.
SIDE TWO: At the top of this side, write “Medieval Period Notes.”
Take a minimum of 1 side of a page of background notes on the Medieval Period (1066-1485). Use our black LBT pages 69-81.
SIDE THREE: At the top of this side, write “History of English Language Notes–LITERARY PERIODS.” Take a minimum of 1 side of a page of background notes on YOUR GROUP’S ASSIGNED TIME PERIOD OF THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE FROM THE FOLLOWING PAGES IN OUR BLACK LIT TEXTBOOK:
GROUP 1 BEOWULF– A. pp. 64-65 (Old English) and B. pp. 186-187 (Middle English)
GROUP 2 GRENDEL A. pp. 64-65 (Old English) and B. pp. 186-187 (Middle English)
GROUP 3 MOMMIES C. pp. 338-339 (Shakespearean English) and D. pp. 428-429 (New Worlds, New Words–Seventeenth Century English)
GROUP 4 DRAGONS E. pp. 560-561 (Eighteenth Century English); F. pp. 678-679 (Romantic Period English) and G. pp. 804-805 (Victorian Period English). GROUP 5 HROTHGAR–not needed
Label each section with the carefully in your notes!
CLICK 2020 Hist of Eng Lang NOTES TEMPLATE FOR A WORD DOCUMENT ALREADY FORMATTED THAT YOU CAN USE TO JUST TYPE IN YOUR NOTES! REALLY SLICK! -
Then on an NOTECARD (given out in class today) OR A SHEET OF PAPER, you are making a practice quiz over this material. Here’s how: On the front of the card, jot down your name and write “AS/MED Quiz” under your name. Then right under “AS/MED Quiz,” number 1-5 and write 5 Q’s about anything you consider “nuts and bolts” material in these notes. Your hope would be that others would also see this material as so vital that your questions would appear on many other classmates’ cards. Then on the BACK of the card, number 1-5 and jot down the 5 answers to these 5 questions
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Continue to update your salmon AS/Medieval Pretest as you should now know a lot more of the answers after taking these terrific notes! Click 2013 Pretest on AngloMedieval Period if you need a copy of the quiz. NOTE: this will be graded for accuracy when we hand it in.
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