Period+4-Scotland

**//History//**
the recorded history of Scotland begins in the 1st century AD, when the Romans invaded Britain. Then England tried to take over, but the Scots rose and were led by William Wallace. “ They routed the English at Stirling Bridge in 1297 and pursued them across the border. The next year Edward returned and inflicted a disastrous defeat on the Scots at Falkirk. Wallace was later captured and executed, and the English hung his head from London Bridge. This part of the history of Scotland was the foundation for the film "Braveheart".”

http://www.heritage-of-scotland.com/hist.htm

**//Music//**
Scotland is internationally known for its traditional music. Many outsiders associate Scottish folk music almost entirely with the Great Highland Bagpipe, which has indeed long played an important part of Scottish music. The oldest forms of music in Scotland are to be Gaelic singing and harp playing. Scottish musical instruments include accordion, bagpipes, fiddle, guitar, harp, and tin whistle to make its traditional Scottish music. [] [] cock O’the north, Scotland the Brave, World Music: Scotland pg.266

**//Dance//**
Scottish dances thrived for years at the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society. Ceilidh Dances are with a caller and perhaps a more folky band, and Scottish Country Dances usually with more traditional Scottish dance band line-up and dancers that know there dancing forms. There are different types of dancing in Scotland and those are Scottish country dance, Ceilidh dance, Highland dance, and Scottish step dance.

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**//Traditional food//**
Haggis is probably the most traditional of all Scottish foods. Basically haggis is the “pluck” of a sheep (mostly the liver, heart, and lungs) boiled with beef fat, the fat is then skimmed off and the rest minced. This casting was traditionally the sheep’s stomach.

Also other Scottish foods are fish, Scottish beef, game-which is the meat of a red deer, scotch broth or hotch-potch, bannocks (or oatcakes), scotch pies, black bun, colcannon, and baxters potato and garden leek soup!

http:www.britishcouncil.org/china-aboutuk-fooddrink-food-scotland-traditionalscottishfood.htm []



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**//Folk tale from Scotland//** ====== There was to men setting next to a woman and there were going to a pub in a carrige. Then one of the men that was setting next to the woman noticed that she was setting all by herself so he sat next to her. Then he noticed she was dead! So he took her clothing off and dressed himself up and wanted to scare everyone in the pub. So when the men got back into the carrige to go back to there homes,they also noticed the woman that didn't move. So they wanted to mess around with her,but then the man that dressed up as her scared them! They got so scared that they fliped or jumped off the back of the carrige. The man that dressed up as the women was laughing so hard, but then relized he had woken up the womans ghost and she scared him!

**//Arts and Crafts//**
Scottish arts and crafts since the earliest times, forms a distance tradition within British and European art. It may be considered to begin with early cravings and artifacts that can date from Neolithic through Bronze Age and Iron Age artifacts, particularly ornamental gold objects, and the religious carvings and illuminated manuscripts of the medieval period and continuing down to modern times.



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**//A fun festival they celebrate today//**
Celtic Connections Festival (Jan. at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall)



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