Assignment:
Sept. 1-2:
Read pages 21-25 and answer
worksheet questions.
“The Battle with Grendel”
Sept. 2-3:
Read pages 26-32.
Answer Question p.32 (1-9)
Answer Worksheet
“The Battle with Grendel’s Mother”
#4 lines-188-191
#6 lines-201-203
#11 refer to lines 255-257
Use old textbook to answer 12-16.
Pages 58-59
Beowulf
 Warrior Characteristics:
– Strength
– Courage/bravery
– Superhuman powers
 Christianity Characteristics:
– Fights evil
– Thanks/praise Almighty
God
– God’s Approval/influence
– Honesty
– Loyalty
– Faith
– Selflessness
List some epic hero
characteristics.
Consider warrior
traits.
Also consider some
ethical and Christian
characteristics that
may have been
recognized.
Beowulf
 Now use these characteristics to annotate your
textbooks with sticky notes.
 Identify Beowulf’s actions in the epic with notes.
 Explain how the action is a characteristic of warrior
or a Anglo-Saxon Christian.
 Warrior Characteristics:
– Strength
– Courage/bravery
– Superhuman powers
•Christianity Characteristics:
•Fights evil
•Thanks/praise Almighty God
•God’s Approval/influence
•Honesty
•Loyalty
•Faith
•Selflessness
Listening Triangle
 Speaker: Shares your info. from your post-it.
 Questioner: Asks questions/explains the
info. further.
 Note-Taker: provides feedback between the
speaker and Question and writes what was
shared and questioned.
 Switching roles three times, you will list each
person, their role and what was discussed.
Sing-a-Song
 You are a Bard in the Anglo-Saxon Period.
 You and your group will retell the tale of
Beowulf.
 Use a current day “nursery rhyme” or child
song and rewrite it to “tell” the story of
Beowulf, Grendel and their battles.
 Then you and your group will present your
song to the class.
Sing-a-Song Example
Grendel Is Coming to Town
To the tune of “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”
Created by M. Abdelaziz, E. Locklear, A. Scott, M. Ellis, C. Biggs, C. Morgan
Grendel is coming to town, hey
Grendel is coming to town.
Gren-del is coming to town.
He’ll kill when you’re sleeping,
But not when you’re awake.
He’s knows if you’re a Geat or Dane,
So stay out of Herot for goodness sake.
You better watch out,
Cause you cannot hide.
He’ll rip you apart
And eat you alive.
Gren-del is coming to town
Sing-a-Song Ex. 2
To the tune of “I’m a Little Teapot”
Created by E. Locklear, C. Biggs, C. Morgan.
I am Beowulf BIG and STRONG
Here are my muscles; here is my sword.
If you wanna fight, I’ll rip your arm.
Mess with me and I’ll fight your mom.
Create Web-Map for the AngloSaxon Period and Beowulf
 A stem for each of the 3 Groups that occupied
Britain
– A branch for each of the three facts about each group
 A stem for the Epic Poem (title)
– 2 branches for literary elements and example
_ sub-branches for 3 characters
Sub-branches for 2 symbols
Sub-branches for 2 heroic characteristics
Test REVIEW
 Anglo-Saxon Notes-history and textbook
 Beowulf notes
 Literary elements: alliteration, caesura,
kenning
 Beowulf plot, characters, events, examples
of literary elements
 Two worksheets
 Questions from margins.