The Captain is back today! Hooray!

We last left off with our pirates listening to the bards telling the earlier stories of Beowulf and how awesome he was when he was younger.

Today, we listened to the bards tell us about Grendel’s Mother’s Swamp. We were also given an opportunity to make some money for the repair of the ship. We are acting as realtors to sell the swamp to make the commission! In first block, Ms. Moulton even came in and was our “guest speaker” to give us hints on how to sell this horrible bit of property.

Then, we read about Beowulf’s battle with Grendel’s Mother. It was ferocious!

(PICTURE OF PENCIL GOES HERE!)

Then, we finally met Old King Beowulf, who looks something like this:

We stammered out that we needed his help because this dragon, or as Aaron said, a big ugly lizard attacked us. Beowulf mused thoughtfully for a second, and said that his people had also been terrorized by this dragon. If we agree to stay to fight the dragon tomorrow morning, we we will be rewarded with our hearts’ wishes: a new or fully repaired ship.

When you write the contract,  check out the following notes that Riley left for you in this PDF – Contract Notes.

ATTENTION

The Beowulf Metaphorical Response has been SHORTENED – you only need to complete the metaphors for the following:

• Beowulf
• Grendel
• Grendel’s Mother
• Hrothgar
• Unferth
• Herot