History of the English Language - Cardsort with Questions

A card sort based on the British Library's excellent history of language online timeline.

Although there are many possible uses, students can arrange texts to see how the visual nature of language has changed, before discussing the details using the information/questions on the back.

Includes:

Beowulf
The Lindisfarne Gospels
Texts from the Battle of Hastings
Middle English Sermons
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Canterbury Tales
The Histories of Troy
Shakespeare's Othello
The first English Dictionary
The first daily newspaper, the Daily Courant
Novels and poems (Pic is of Sense and Sensibility)
Essay to Miss Catharine Jay
Text-speak and Internet slang
Cult Dialects.

Note: when printing select 'flip on short edge' to ensure the correct description matches the correct card.