06/14/13
Ms. Caleb
Monsters Lesson 02 Literary Background for Beowulf
3-2-1 Assessment Sheet
What are three key things you learned about the Dark Ages in this lesson? Please be sure to include at least two complete sentences for each one.
A. The Dark Ages developed in Europe due to the many invasions of the Barbarian Tribes. This destroyed the civilization of the Roman Empire. This era lasted about 600 years. During the Dark Ages the European Government was replaced by many small warring kingdoms. The Roman cities fell into destruction and many things had been ruined.
B. The Barbarians envied Rome’s wealth and their rich lands, because of this they became violent and started to attack the Roman’s powerful army. To keep the Barbarians out of The Roman Empire, the Emperor Hadrian ordered for a stone wall to be instructed across the entire northern frontier of Britain. This wall served its purpose for many years. C. Christianity had been adopted as Rome’s official religion. Years after this the Anglo-Saxdon’s did not want to convert to Christianity because it reminded them of the Romans. Eventually soon after the sixth century one by one they all began to convert to Christianity from worshiping the Pagan Norse God.
Explain two things that you would still like to know about the development of Old English. Please be sure to include at least one complete sentence for each one.
A. How did the language evolve?
B. What made this language come about as the 1st language
In one paragraph, describe how the language of English evolved during the Dark Ages. What were the influences that changed it over the years? Which ethnic backgrounds were involved in this evolution? Please write at least four sentences for this response.
A. Old English was a blend of German, Latin, and Celtic. It was adapted due to the continuous invasions of England. The romans invaded and brought along their Latin Influences which came to mix with the Celtics origin which ruled England until 55 B.C.
After that, about 410 A.D. the Anglo Saxons took over England and ruled until 797 A.D. When the Vikings also known as the Normans invaded English land and brought over their German language.