Daily Archives: February 12, 2015

2/12/2015 – A

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Since we finished reading Beowulf yesterday, today, we started watching The 13th Warrior, a movie that is based on Beowulf. It was originally a novel written by Michael Crighton, the man who wrote Jurassic Park, Timeline, and other blockbuster movies.

When writing The Eaters of the Dead, he based it off of two things: Beowulf and Ahmad ibn Fadlan’s accounts of traveling with the Volga Vikings. I went into this much detail because of Alex!
Hope you guys enjoy the movie – it’s my favorite Beowulf movie out there!

2/12/2015 – B

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We started class out by doing the Othello anticipation guide.

Then, we watched a couple of videos about Italian stereotypes and discussed those. Louis was a little unhappy with the guy in video 1, but other than that, we agreed with most (if not all) of what he was saying.

Then, you chose an article about Jersey Shore and did the Jersey Shore Analysis.

Jersey ShoreWe talked about why Othello chose Italy as the setting for his play Othello:

settingThen, the last thing you did was discuss Italian stereotypes and what we can do to end prejudice.