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PUBLIC SPEAKING

Secondary II and III (Intermediate) Topics

1. We want to be the first - not first "if", not first "but", but first (John Kennedy)

2. I see a day when men and women walk together in broad, sunlit uplands in a world undimmed by bigotry and fear (Sir Winston Churchill)

3. If you win the rat race, you're still a rat (Lily Tomlin)

4. The mind is a cauldron, not a filing cabinet (Robertson Davies)

5. We are facing a test that will establish our character (Andrew Jackson)

6. The tongue can paint what the eye cannot see (Chinese maxim)

7. Things do not change; we change (Thoreau)

8. We are what we repeatedly do (Aristotle)

9. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward (Thomas A. Edison)

10. Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood (Marie Curie)

Please bring a rough draft of your speech to school on Monday, March 31. The Public Speaking Competition will begin on Tuesday, April 1 (no joke).

Anglo-Saxon Literature and Beowulf

Map of Anglo-Saxon England

Readings from Beowulf (audio)

The Write Stuff: Illuminated Manuscripts

Images from the Book of Kells

Trinity College, Dublin: Book of Kells

The Lindisfarne Gospels

JPEG - French Manuscript

Text and Translations: Anglo-Saxon Riddles

JPEG of People and Paul of Kells image

Definitions to Terms:

The following definitions and examples come from The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, by J.A. Cuddon, third ed. (London and New York: Penguin, 1991).

Alliteration: A figure of speech in which consonants, especially at the beginning of words, or stressed syllables, are repeatedIn [Old English] poetry alliteration was a continual and essential part of the metrical scheme and until the late Middle Ages was often used thus. [Cuddon provides some classic examples, such as Coleridge's descripton of the sacred river Alph in his poem, Kubla Khan: "Five miles meandering with a mazy motion."]

Caesura: (Latin: "a cutting") A break or pause in a line of poetry, dictated, usually, by the natural rhythm of the languageIn [Old English] verse the caesura was usedto indicate the half line.

Kenning: The term derives from the use of the Old Norse verb kenna 'to know, recognize'It is a device for introducing descriptive colour or for suggesting associations without distracting attention from the essential statement.

Cuddon offers the following instances of Old English kennings:

a) helmberend"helmet bearer" = "warrior"

b) beadoleoma"battle light" = "flashing sword"

c) swansrad"swan road" = "sea" Essentially, then, a kenning is a compact metaphor that functions as a name or epithet; it is also, in its more complex forms, a riddle in miniature.

Format for Assignments and Essays for English Sec. III

Most of these instructions apply whether your project is computer-generated or handwritten. If you do not understand, please ask me.

1. Please use font size 12, Times New Roman. Do not use bold or italics unless you are highlighting the title of a book.

2. The title of the assignment or essay should appear on the first page.

3. Please do not title paragraphs (or use paragraph headings) or present a table of contents. Your paper should flow.

4. Please double space.

5. Please double space between paragraphs. Only one double space should appear; you do not need to have a larger gap between paragraphs.

6. Please leave a standard margin (about 1 inch, 2.5 cm) around the paper.

7. Please write or type on one side of the paper only.

8. Please number all the pages in the upper right hand corner.

9. Please do not use illustrations or images.

10. Use the editing programmes on your computer such as grammar and spell checks.

11. If you are including a bibliography, please type or write it on a separate sheet of paper and put it in alphabetical order.

12. Please include a cover page which states the title of your assignment, the date, your name, and the teacher's name. The title must be in the centre of the page and the other text will be centred about two-thirds of the way down the page.

13. Use only black ink for a computer-generated assignment and dark blue ink for a handwritten assignment.

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