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

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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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SIGN IN: Medieval English History Discussion

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INTRODUCTIONS: Medieval English History

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

DISCUSSION 1: Medieval English History: Prehistory the British Isles

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Stonehenge? Beaker People? Celts?

DISCUSSION 2: Medieval English History: Roman Britain

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Boadicea? Hadrian's Wall?

DISCUSSION 3: General Medieval English History Questions

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If you were a geek Parker read something from the readings I gave you, dazzle us with your brillance here.

HOMEWORK: Hand in next Tuesday's homework here

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Hand in next Tuesday's homework here. You must have it in by next Tuesday.

TALKING IN CLASS: Medieval English History

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Whispering to your seatmate? Throwing notes across the room? Do it here.

AFTER CLASS: Medieval English History

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Have a question for Dr. Pierson or Elizabeth Weir? Ask here.

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Cameron signs in.

OOC: Medieval English History

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For all your out of character needs.

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Elizabeth signs in.

Re: INTRODUCTIONS: Medieval English History

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"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

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"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."

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Vala signs in.

Re: OOC: Medieval English History

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Um... 100 words isn't the maximum? Is it?

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Buffy signs in.

Re: INTRODUCTIONS: Medieval English History

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

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"So," Cameron decided to jump right in with the one million dollar question because really someone ought to ask it, "who build Stonehenge?"

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Cordelia signs in.

Re: INTRODUCTIONS: Medieval English History

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

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"I never realized that Stonhenge was built and then rebuit and added on to for several years."

Re: INTRODUCTIONS: Medieval English History

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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: DISCUSSION 2: Medieval English History: Roman Britain

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"Okay, you know I read the material and I just keep wondering why they even went to the place to begin with. They got nothing but trouble there. They got harassed by pretty much all of the natives, even had to copy the Chinese and build walls to keep them out instead of taking over the entire land to begin with. In the end, they just end up leaving the place anyway." Cameron rambles on a bit.

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

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

Re: DISCUSSION 2: Medieval English History: Roman Britain

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"You said Boadicea lead a revolution against these Ro-mans? Did it work?"