Daily Archives: January 31, 2013

1/31/2013

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We read The Coming of Beowulf today – wow. What I can I say about Beowulf? He’s pretty awesome.

He really represents the values of the Anglo-Saxons. We talked about the difference between being COCKY and CONFIDENT – and that Beowulf was confident.

We also discussed why it was significant that Beowulf asked Hrothgar for permission to kill Grendel rather than busting in and kill stealing.

After we finished listening to the bards, there was little punk kid who was smoking, and blowing smoke in the face of a crew member. This crew member lost his/her cool and beat this guy and killed him. Oooooohhhhh nooooooo!   We then took an Anglo-Saxon Culture as WERGILD to prove that we did respect Anglo-Saxon culture – we have to pass the quiz… OR ELSE the Anglo-Saxons will come after us. And here is another group quiz:

1/30/2013

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OK, Sorry about that last post. I was just too tired to update.

We started reading Beowulf – The Wrath of Grendel. Print Beowulf Text to OneNote and get the notes from a crew member who took good notes. Zully took good notes, Lorena took good notes, Brittany took good notes, and I’m pretty sure that in 3rd block, Victoria took good notes.

Here is a blurry picture of Grendel. GRRRR!

After that, we were given a bunch of quotes and we sorted them into FATE and FREE WILL.

Lastly, we tried on CHAIN MAIL! This is the type of armor that Beowulf wore. Here are some of my pirates wearing trying it on. 🙂

I’ll add more chain mail pics in the next posts.