History of Medieval England - Thursday 6th Period: Discussion 1: Introduction and Pre-history to 500

[prof-methos.livejournal.com]

Good afternoon, class. Now I get to torture you all by making you all stand up and introduce yourselves to your classmates. This is because I'm sadistic want to get you used to the concept of talking during our discussion sessions. Please give your name and what one thing you'd like to find out in this class.

Your homework, due next Tuesday but to be posted in this post is to pick a topic from the once-optional-now-mandatory reading list I gave you on Prehistoric Britain and Roman Britain and give me ETA a minimum of one hundred Wikipedia words on it. Got it? Good.

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INTRODUCTIONS: Medieval English History

[prof-methos.livejournal.com]

Introduce yourself and tell me what you'd like to learn in this class.

Re: INTRODUCTIONS: Medieval English History

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"I'm Cameron Mitchell, I'm a junior." Cameron starts off easily, then falters as he tries to come up with something that he wants to learn. "I'd like to learn about... Well mostly cool battles and swordfights, but I'm sure there's a lot more to it so I can learn about that too."

Re: INTRODUCTIONS: Medieval English History

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

"I'm Elizabeth Weir, and I'm the TA," Elizabeth says. "I'm interested in the early ruling systems and social control in a medieval environment."

Re: INTRODUCTIONS: Medieval English History

[forlornslayer.livejournal.com]

"I'm Buffy the Vampire Slayer Summers. I'm taking this class before I'm interested in learning how the different socio-economic classes got their start in history and how the people developed and the ideas of government and belief and in no way because I keep having dreams about that time period."

Re: INTRODUCTIONS: Medieval English History

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

"I'm Vala Mal Doran, I'm a junior, and I need a history class before they'll let me out of here, but the one for around here conflicted with self-defense, so I'm taking this one.

I guess I want to learn where English is, why we should care about it's history if it's not around here, and whether they developed any cool art or anything ."

Re: INTRODUCTIONS: Medieval English History

[upforachase.livejournal.com]

I'm Cordelia. I know pretty much nothing about this time period, at least like, normal history, so I'm interested in learning as much as possible. Specifically, I'm looking to expand my knowledge on important dates in history and the details of what happened."

Re: INTRODUCTIONS: Medieval English History

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"I'm Parker. I'm a junior. I'm here to torture you! I want to learn the difference between the myths of England-- Arthur, Robin Hood, the Princes in the Tower-- and the reality. Plus, I'd like to know more about the British system of law, since it's the basis of ours."

Re: INTRODUCTIONS: Medieval English History

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

I'm Lana Lang, sophomore. I'm interested in learning more about the culture of the period.

Re: INTRODUCTIONS: Medieval English History

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

Lee stands up and says, "I'm Lee Adama and I'd like to learn where England is and why you people seem to care about it more about the history of the planet -- and after I briefly researched this time period by watching "King Arthur", I thought it might be interesting to learn more about invading forces in a time where there was hardly any technology to speak of."

Re: INTRODUCTIONS: Medieval English History

[swerval_zero]

"I'm Zero Hopeless-Savage, and I'm a Junior. I'm here to torture you, too! because I'm half-British, so I'd like to learn more about my father's natiff land, and also so I can maybe find out what exactly was going on with those villagers as what tried to burn me at the stake."

Re: INTRODUCTIONS: Medieval English History

[lady-jessica-bg.livejournal.com]

"I'm Jessica Atreides and I'm a sophomore. I'd like to learn about the power struggles and major conflicts of the Medieval period."

Re: INTRODUCTIONS: Medieval English History

[chasingangela]

"I'm Angela Chase, I'm a junior, and I guess I'm interested in learning about, sort of, the reality behind the sort of fairy-tale image we have of medieval times."