CP English 12
9.8.15 – 9.15.15
Tuesday, September 8
Objective: Students will support responses to questions with textual support
Review highlights of Beowulf Part I
Go over questions
Paraphrasing
Assignment
Review part 1: know highlighted vocabulary words (reparation, reprisal, loathsome, vehemently, infallible, extolled)
Wednesday, September 9
Objective: Students will demonstrate understanding of the epic poem Beowulf as well as conventions of Anglo-Saxon
literature
Quiz: Beowulf, Part I
Begin Beowulf, Part 2
Assignment
Read Beowulf, Part 2 (pages 43 -49) and learn highlighted words
Thursday, September 10
Objective: Students will understand how prefixes and suffixes influenced the evolution of the English language
Vocabulary review
Discuss evolution of Anglo-Saxon prefixes: Work in groups to demonstrate understanding
Discuss Part 2 through textual questions
Friday, September 11
Objective: Students will understand how the epic connects Beowulf as a representation of Anglo-Saxon literature and
history
Review the epic and Anglo-Saxon conventions
Practice paraphrasing of key passages (group work)
Review Beowulf as a representation of Anglo-Saxon literature
Review outlining format
Monday, September 14: No school!
Tuesday, September 15
Objectives: Students will demonstrate understanding of the epic, knowledge of the vocabulary (prefixes, suffixes,
words in context), and Beowulf
Unit Test: Beowulf & Anglo-Saxon history
Anglo-Saxon Literature: Terms
caesura: (Latin: "a cutting") A break or pause in a line of poetry, dictated, usually, by the natural rhythm of the language…In [Old
English] verse the caesura was used to indicate the half line.
comitatus: Germanic code of loyalty: Thanes or warriors, swore loyalty to the king for whom they fought and protected. In
return, the king was expected to be generous with gifts of treasures and lands.
epic: A long narrative poem on a great and serious subject, related in an elevated style, and centered on a heroic or quasidivine figure on whose actions depends the fate of a tribe, a nation, or the human race.
kenning: The term derives from the use of the Old Norse verb kenna 'to know, recognize'…It is a device for introducing
descriptive color or for suggesting associations without distracting attention from the essential
statement. (example: helmberend—"helmet bearer" = "warrior"
scop: composers and storytellers of Anglo-Saxon poetry: the entertainment of Anglo-Saxon times. They were to know a
repertoire of tales and be able to compose tales of tribute to the patrons who financed them.
alliteration: Repetition of initial consonant sounds to create a rhythm and meaning (“. . . m ake good the gift of the war-gear”)