Learning Focused - ALP
Development of Universal Themes
LEQ: Is Beowulf a typical epic hero?
NOTES
Activating Strategy
Warm Up Activity
Teaching Strategy
Inferencing
Graphic Organizer
Cooperative Pairs
Marginal Questions
Summarizing Strategy
Review of Epic Hero Characteristics
(G/O)
Model Marginal Questions (as time
allows)
Our LEQ…
•Is Beowulf a typical epic hero?
• Why or why not?
• Use your graphic organizer to record your
thoughts as we read the story together in
class. Be prepared to answer this question in
the form of an essay when we complete the
literature study.
Agenda for Wednesday & Thursday (9/26 and 9/27)
Finish Reading Beowulf
Please SIGN IN next to your name on the podium.
Open your textbooks to page 58.
Today we are reading: Beowulf’s Last Battle, The Death
of Beowulf, and Mourning Beowulf
Please take out your homework:
(A-L marginal questions were due last session and submitted
for credit )
• Today M, N, O and P are due.
Homework: Complete your g/o on epic hero.
• Re-read any sections of the story that were unclear.
Come to class with questions. Finish the questions in
the margin that go along with today’s reading in class.
Agenda for Wednesday & Thursday (9/26 and 9/27)
WARM UP
(5 minutes)
Together with your partner…create a 3-2-1 for the
following items. Be prepared to share you answers
aloud with the class:
3.
2.
1.
REASONS Beowulf could be considered an
EPIC HERO
EXAMPLES of kennings from the poem.
Define them also please. Who is being
referenced.
ITEM that is still not clear to you in the
poem/story.
Agenda for Wednesday & Thursday (9/26 and 9/27)
SUMMARIZING…
Think about the story we are reading. It is the oldest known piece of
literature in history. Use the acrostic that captures the MAIN POINTS that
we have discussed thus far about the main character, the time period, the
setting, plot, conflicts, language, etc. The best one in each class will receive
a prize!
Battles Grendel and his Momma with his bare hands
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Summary – MAIN PLOT DETAILS
EPIC POEM CHAPTERS
#1
#2
#3
#4
GRENDEL
Powerful Monster
– Descendent of
the Devil – Lives
in the the swamp
Been killing the
Danes (Herot) for
12 long years…at
night in the mead
hall as they sleep
People are very
saddened and
Hrothgar (King) is
desperate for help
BEOWULF
Son of Edgtho –
warrior who
fought for
Hrothgar
H paid off E’s
enemies in
exchange for his
loyalty
B if of noble birth
…. Higlac is his
uncle (king of the
Geats)
pp. 43 (example
of great
strength…)
BATTLE WITH
GRENDEL
B goes to fight G
bare hands (not a
sword)
Herot/Mead
hall…B is waiting
for him…G
attacks…and isn’t
successful
B manages to rip
off his arm from
the
socket…SNAP…G
slinks back to the
marsh and dies..
Arm of G is now
hanging in the
mead hall for all
to see…bragging
rights…proof…
GRENDEL’S
MOTHER
Momma comes
for revenge
She’s
attacked…She kills
Hrothgar’s BFF
B is sleeping
somewhere
else….
She takes back
her son’s
arm…Returns
home…
BATTLE WITH
GRENDEL’S
MOTHER
B agrees to go get
G’s Mom…
Stab him and his
mail shirt saves
him…sword
breaks
B lifts this super
heavy sword – no
mortal man is
able …
Kills her…goes
back for G’s
head…
If you did not have your INFERENCING
assignment complete….please fill out a
PINK SLIP…
Include the following information on a piece of
paper that you will be submitting today in class.
• Your Name
• Period
• Today’s Date
• Assignment:
Comprehension Questions for Beowulf
• Reason for INCOMPLETE work and/or no work…
TO INFER AN ANSWER….
A strategy to improve the quality of your written
responses to questions
IT SAYS
I SAY
AND SO…
BOOKS SAYS
OPINION….
ANSWER TO THE
QUESTION….
QUOTE THE TEXT
PARAPHRASE
• RESTATE THE
QUESTION
• ANSWER THE
QUESTION
• SUPPORTING DETAILS
EXAMPLE: Inferencing….
A on page 38
IT SAYS
I SAY
“A powerful monster,
living down in the
darkness, growled in
pain, impatient…”
(pg. 38, lines 1-2)
The use of alliteration
tends to create a mood
in writing. I think the P
and D probably add to
the heaviness of the
moment and help
explain the setting for
where we will meet
Grendel, the monster.
AND SO…
The mood, or feeling
that is being conveyed by
the alliteration that
introduces us to Grendel,
feels heavy. The use of
the words, “powerful,
pain, impatient” coupled
with the heavy D sounds,
“down and darkness”
paint a perfect picture of
the lair for “mankind’s
enemy” …Grendel.
BEOWULF (Is He …or Isn’t He?)
GRAPHIC ORGANIZER – EPIC HERO
EXAMPLES FROM THE TEXT
(PAGE NUMBER & LINE NUMBERS – PLUS EXPLANATIONS)
NOBLE BIRTH
Page 43 (lines 142…) “Hail, Hrothgar, Higlac is my cousin and my
king…”
Page 43 (lines 127-128) “My lord, the great king of the Danes,
commands me to tell you that he knows of your noble birth….”
(Wulfgar speaking to Beowulf about his nobility….)
EMBODIES IDEALS
POSSESSES GREAT
STRENGTH
ACTIONS DETERMINE
NATIONS’ FATE
Page 43 (lines 149) “My people have said, the wisest, most
knowing and best of them, that my duty was to go to the Danes’
Great king. They have seen my strength for themselves. Have
watched me rise from the darkness of war, dripping with my
enemies’ blood…..”