Anglo Saxon Background Research Assignment

Anglo Saxon Background Research Assignment Name _____________________________________ Class Section _____

Directions:
1. Circle your assigned topic of the 12 below
2. Research your assigned topic. (Complete a search for each of the main ideas / proper nouns.)
3. Read and paraphrase information you find in note form (do NOT copy and paste) on the back of this page.
4. Cite source(s) in MLA format: Author, Title, Publication Information.
Topics:
A. 449 Anglo Saxon Invasion
B. 597 St. Augustine founds Christian monastery at Canterbury, Kent
C. 653 Celtic church begins to spread Christianity among people living in the Severn Valley
D. 664 Snyod of Whitby establishes Roman Church in England
E. 731 Bede completes A History of the English
Church and People
F. c. 750 Surviving version of Beowulf composed
G. 793 Vikings attack Lindisfarne
H.
871 Alfred the Great becomes King of Wessex
I. c. 975 Saxon monks copy Old English poems into The Exeter Book
J. 991 English defeated by Danes in Battle of Maldon
K. 1042 Edward the Confessor becomes king of the Saxons
L. 1066 Normans defeat Saxons at Hastings. William the Conqueror becomes King of England

This is due next class!

Anglo Saxon Background Research Assignment Name _____________________________________ Class Section _____

Directions:
1. Circle your assigned topic of the 12 below
2. Research your assigned topic. (Complete a search for each of the main ideas / proper nouns.)
3. Read and paraphrase information you find in note form (do NOT copy and paste) on the back of this page.
4. Cite source(s) in MLA format: Author, Title, Publication Information.
Topics:
A. 449 Anglo Saxon Invasion
B. 597 St. Augustine founds Christian monastery at Canterbury, Kent
C. 653 Celtic church begins to spread Christianity among people living in the Severn Valley
D. 664 Snyod of Whitby establishes Roman Church in England
E. 731 Bede completes A History of the English Church and People
F. c. 750 Surviving version of Beowulf composed
G. 793 Vikings attack Lindisfarne
H. 871 Alfred the Great becomes King of
Wessex
I. c. 975 Saxon monks copy Old English poems into The Exeter Book
J. 991 English defeated by Danes in Battle of Maldon
K. 1042 Edward the Confessor becomes king of the Saxons
L. 1066 Normans defeat Saxons at Hastings. William the Conqueror becomes King of England

This is due next class!