Lesson Plans

Old English - A Lesson Plan
Learning Objectives Students will understand: The events that brought Old English into being What Old English is What is the accepted way to read Old English	Essential Question(s): What is Old English? How did it develop? How should an Old English text be read?
Assessment Evidence
True / False and multiple choice questions for the historical part. A matching activity (match the spelling with its sound) to assess the pronunciation part. A cloze test could be assigned to summarize the history and pronunciation of Old English
Plan
Learning Activities: Warm-up Teacher shows students some pictures connected with Anglo-Saxon culture (e.g. manuscripts, daily life scenes, etc…) Lesson: Teacher provides students with a handout from the BBC site. Students read the summary of historical events in 400 A.D., 750 – 7050 A.D. and 1066 A.D. and write a short paragraph about these three periods. Thacher provides students with a handout on Old English pronunciation and allows students some time to read it. Teacher then helps students to understand how some words were pronounced in Old English. Teacher may want to pint out that Old English pronunciation has been reconstructed, there is in fact no evidence that the correct pronunciation is the one presented.

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