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**Activity 5: Ancient Contributions to the English Language (Baruch)**

__**Guiding Question**__ **:**  How do the history of words, their origins, their form and their meaning change over time?

__**Objective**__ Students will demonstrate their understanding of the basic etymology of the English language.

__**Procedures**__ **:** Students will use the Guiding Resources and other research materials to complete their activities as specified below.

__**Guiding Activities**__ The following demonstrations of learning will be displayed within a glog:
 * 1) [|Students will use digital storytelling as a vehicle to demonstrate how Greek, Latin and English spread geographically across the globe].
 * 2) [|Students will create a digital image chronology of English from the Roman invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar to the British colonization of North America.]
 * 3) [|Students will create a digital image family tree of the Germanic Languages.]
 * 4) [|Students will provide digital images and voice recording examples of Old English, Middle English, Modern English and Late Modern English.]

__**Guiding Resources**__ : Arcturus. (2010, April 14). Empire Map: Roman Empire Simulation [Video]. //You Tube// . Retrieved from <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nkQESfa1mg__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bosworth, J. (2009). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Origin of the English Germanic and Scandinavian Languages and Nations// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bubbl.us Free Mind Mapping,. (2010). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Brainstorming made simple// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Retrieved from <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://bubbl.us/__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Discovery Education. (2004). Ancient Rome: Expansion and Conquest [Full Video]. Available from <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.discoveryeducation.com/__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">English Club, (2010). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//History of the English Language// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Retrieved from <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.englishclub.com/english-language-history.htm__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Goldhil. (2002). Latin and Greek Prefixes: Negatives [Video Segment]. Available from <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.discoveryeducation.com/__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Goldhil. (2002). Latin and Greek Prefixes: Positives [Video Segment]. Available from <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.discoveryeducation.com/__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Google Images// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. [Web]. Retrieved from <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://images.google.com/__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Langauge. C. (2010, April 26). A Brief History of the English Language [Video]. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//YouTube// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Retrieved from <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFcjeCIQiME&feature=watch_response__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ohler, J. (2008). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Digital Storytelling in the Classroom// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.