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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[[ETA: OOC: At some point I stopped receiving comment notifications for this post. I'm scanning and trying to jump into discussions. But since I'm trying to foster discussion *amongst* all of you, I try not to jump in everywhere.]]

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Re: DISCUSSION 1: Medieval English History: Prehistory the British Isles

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

Vala raises her hand. "So what's with British and where's that? I thought this was English history?"

Re: DISCUSSION 1: Medieval English History: Prehistory the British Isles

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Great Britain is the whole island. England is part of it." Parker frowned. "Hey. Are we studying just England, or does Irish and Scottish history figure in here too?"

Re: DISCUSSION 1: Medieval English History: Prehistory the British Isles

[swerval_zero]

"Hey, yeah, good question. Ireland isn't part of Britain, but Scotland and Wales are. Oh, and Cornwall, too."

Re: DISCUSSION 1: Medieval English History: Prehistory the British Isles

[prof-methos.livejournal.com]

"Discussing 'England' at this point in history is fairly useless. As the country develops a political identity, we're going to be focusing on the section known as 'England', largely because it dominated the rest of the area so completely. But that doesn't mean that we are going to ignore the other major political and social units."

Re: DISCUSSION 1: Medieval English History: Prehistory the British Isles

[swerval_zero]

"Right, there was no 'England' at the time. Or any of those other places, really."

Re: DISCUSSION 1: Medieval English History: Prehistory the British Isles

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

Lee is so confused but can't think of how to properly state a question.

Re: DISCUSSION 1: Medieval English History: Prehistory the British Isles

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

Vala can. "So basically were studying something that doesn't exist?"

Re: DISCUSSION 1: Medieval English History: Prehistory the British Isles

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

If Lee could get away with clinging to Vala, he would.

Re: DISCUSSION 1: Medieval English History: Prehistory the British Isles

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

Vala is thinking there may need to be some private tutoring for the off-world clueless....

Re: DISCUSSION 1: Medieval English History: Prehistory the British Isles

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

"And is it related to this "Britainia" place I'm supposed to heil or hail on or something?" Lee asks.

Re: DISCUSSION 1: Medieval English History: Prehistory the British Isles

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

Vala looks over at him and nods. The off-planet and utterly confused students had to stick together!