[Ansteorra] "Freaking the Mundanes"

Owen Van Meter ovanoff57 at clearwire.net
Thu Jul 17 18:21:53 PDT 2008


True, but you would think that as big a deal as the Revolutionary and the 
Civil War and the influences they had on this country would have rung a bell 
somewhere. His whole thing was "he didn't know anything about those time 
periods and didn't care to know"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan McMahill" <sueorintx at hotmail.com>
To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] "Freaking the Mundanes"


>I don't know how much time the spend on it in high school, but I know that 
>in the middle schools I sub in, only a couple of weeks is spent on our 
>period in Europe. It's kind of frightening actually. Everything is covered 
>in the World Geog class and Europe is given about 6 weeks, most of it in 
>Modern and Contemporary(post 1900) history, economics and politics. They 
>get a little bit of Late Period with U.S. History in the age of Exploration 
>and Colonial period, but I would gusess that a majority of kids entering 
>high school have little to no understanding of almost anything that 
>happened from pre-history to the mid 1600s Europe. If you say Magna Carta, 
>I would guess that some might think that it rings a bell, but they don't 
>know what it is. They probably have more knowledge of Robin Hood than of 
>Henry II or Eleanor of Aquitaine and would have no clue about Henry V 
>unless they read Shakespeare. I doubt that any would know who Charlemagne 
>was. Sad, but true.
>
> Lyneya
> Well-behaved women Seldom make history - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
>
>
>
>> From: ovanoff57 at clearwire.net> To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> Date: 
>> Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:28:38 -0500> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] "Freaking the 
>> Mundanes"> > How about this One:> > Went into a convience store on the 
>> way home from an event, > still for the most part in garb. The clerk asks 
>> what the outfits were about. > In response I told him that we were like 
>> the Revolutionary & Civil War > re-enactors except we did the middle 
>> ages. He then responded by saying That > he didn't have a clue as to what 
>> "any" of that was. Must have slept through > U.S. & world history in 
>> school - if he went at all. hopefully this a one > time thing and not a 
>> clue as to our future as a group and country> ----- Original 
>> Message ----- > From: "HE Chiang" <chiang at nts-online.net>> To: "Kingdom 
>> of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>> Sent: 
>> Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:27 PM> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] "Freaking the 
>> Mundanes"> > > >I would have given much to see you speechless.> > Chi...u
> h...Gavin> >> > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Paul DeLisle" 
> <ferretpd at gmail.com>> > To: "'Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.'" 
> <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>> > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:19 PM> 
>  > Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] "Freaking the Mundanes"> >> >> >> Actually, we 
> drove up to the window, waited for our food, and as she > >> handed> >> it 
> to me, I got THE Question...> >> ...the Classic one...the one that 
> everyone waits their whole SCA lives > >> for:> >>> >> "Are you all in a 
> play?"> >>> >> I was actually speechless for about a half a second (...an 
> eternity in > >> the> >> AldenTalking universe); ...I looked around the 
> car to see 4 other faces > >> also> >> desperately trying to choose *just* 
> the right response. But I decided to > >> be> >> a good SCAer; and turned 
> back to the window, (as Claire so aptly put it)> >> putting my mouth into 
> in "we recreate the Middle Ages" gear... at which> >> point, her co-worker 
> jumped to the window, and said: "No, no... I kn
> ow, I> >> KNOW! ...They're on a *Scavenger Hunt*!"> >>> >> I just flat 
> couldn't recover from a One-Two punch like that...so I closed > >> my> >> 
> gaping jaw, nodded, and we took our food and drove off like the faculty > 
>  >> of> >> ACU was after us...> >>> >> Alden> >> (Good times....LOL)> >> >> 
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