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IV – 9/10/2012

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We started off reading Beowulf: The Battle with Grendel. Vicious. He yanked his arm off! Like pulling a chicken leg off. POP!

After we read, Riley showed us The Mead Hll Intruder, and then we worked on the Open Mind Diagram. The instructions and a template are in LMS. Basically, you have to have these objects inside the mind:

  • three images to symbolize Beowulf
  • four “brainstorms” per picture that describe Beowulf
  • Two quotes that prove that he is epic.

Make sure you cite your quotes correctly. It will look something like this:

“Blah blah blah. This is my quote right here” (Raffel lines 123-124).

You will put in the lines from where you found your quote.

After that, Riley explained the Metaphorical Analysis.

You will create ten metaphors for ten objects from Beowulf. There is n example for Hamlet in LMS, and if you look at the dropbox, you can see Riley’s personal example for Beowulf where she compares him to espresso.

Choose metaphors – don’t make the mistake that Beowulf is like a soldier – he technically is a soldier. If you call Riley a girl, that’s not a metaphor, that’s the truth. Think of weird comparisons – like plants, or inanimate objects.

Don’t compare Herot to a building or a palace – that’s what it *is*!

3/30/2012

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Aaaachooo! We sneezed out Sneeze #5 today, and then we spent about ten minutes editing and revising ONE of those sneezes so that Cap’n Riley can grade it. Edit it so that it is mechanically sound (spelling, grammar, punctuation, run ons, sentence structure, etc) and revise it to fix confusing sentences, take away unnecessary stuff, or add to it.

We then read The Battle with Grendel – it took about twelve minutes. Not bad at all. And it made me hungry for chicken legs – that’s actually what I had for lunch today! It was FATED!

We ended the day doing an Open Mind Diagram for Beowulf.

  • Do this in PowerPoint. Make sure it is Portrait, not Landscaped.
  • Find an outline of a head or profile.
  • Find three images that represent Beowulf.
  • Around each image, write four words or phrases. If you use phrases, I want no more than 3 words in the phrase. (3 images X 4 words = 12 words total).
  • Two quotes that are correctly cited that show Beowulf’s personality or his actions.

 

The rubric is in LMS if you want to see specifics.

1/26/2012

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Make sure you download the Beowulf text in LMS. It’s long (29 pages!), but print it to OneNote or Journal Writer. Today, we read The Wrath (Anger) of Grendel and took notes.

Then we talked about how the Christians believed in Free Will while the Pagans believed in Fate. So Cap’n gave us a list of quotes and we had to sort them into fate/free will categories.

Lastly, she gave us a cartoon that we had to narrate.

Make sure that you use at least three words from *her* Word Storm and that it narrates a story of some kind.

9/9/11

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Today is the day, Friday. You know what that means, it means that today was the day that Beowulf took down Grendel. oh yeah. But today Mrs. Riley was Grendel and Block 3’s Devante was Beowulf. He really showed Grendel who was boss. We read what really happened, sword’s couldn’t take Grendel down at all, but Beowulf’s hands, which had the strength of 30 men, took him down and TORE OFF HIS ARM. Gross but really cool, huh. Beowulf kept the arm as a trophy. It must have really stunk after a while. Grendel died in his cave but at the bottom of the text we will soon be seeing the WRATH OF GRENDELS MOTHER. Don’t mess with momma bear.

After that we all pretty much just finished our foil people. Not very fun but still something to do then just sitting there with a blank expression on your face, right?