OMG. Captain Riley really lost it today.

We learned that the Anglo-Saxon bards “talk funny” because they used alliteration, caesuras, and kennings. What are those, you ask?

Well, that’s what we learned today. We started out by doing a scavenger hunt with pictures. We each had a picture that focused around a letter  and had to find all the words that started with that letter. For example, if you had the letter P, you had to find as many P words as you could.

Then, we used that letter and wrote one sentence with at least ten words that started with that letter. For example, if you had P, you had to write a sentence that had at least ten P words in it. This is alliteration!

Then we did caesuras. We heard the song The Breaks read out loud, and then we heard the song. We answered two questions on Socrative about the song: