We reviewed what we read yesterday by adding information to the foldable that we made yesterday. We added information about Hrothgar and Beowulf.

Hrothgar

• King of the Danes
• helpless against Grendel
• he “wept”

Grendel

• Descendant of Cain (1st murderer)
• doesn’t follow Anglo-Saxon values
• Comes out at night
• Can’t touch Hrothgar’s throne
• hell-forged hands (kenning)
• kills for fun

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.

Then, I gave you some flex time to either work on missing assignments (MSG = a zero in the gradebook!) or to work on the Metaphorical Response.