Tag Archives: The Battle with Grendel

9/2/2016

by

Hooray for Friday! So, we had all day yesterday to work on our Beo-Boast. If you are still sitting at a line or two, you are going to need to work a little on this at home. We’ll have some time this week to revise and edit (and do he metacognition part), but not longer than 15 or so minutes.

Today, we read two small parts: the Battle with Grendel and the Monster’s Lair (pages 48-52) and then did the Sell this Swamp activity. I showed you the old real estate listing for my old house (right before the bank foreclosed on it!) to show you an example of you can twist negatives into positives. For example, that house was a disaster, but the kitchen is large and spacious, perfect for someone who loves to cook. Yes, the backyard has a mounted deer head deteriorating in the elements showing a bit of the skull, but it’s a large backyard with mature fruit trees!

platz

The instructions (and a few real life real estate examples) can be found in Blackboard > Beowulf> Sell This Swamp.

sell swampYou don’t have write the ENTIRE listing: just the first descriptive paragraph. Try to take at least five negative things and spin them to be positive. I gave two that you could use in class:

  1. You know how Grendel used torn scraps of skin as wallpaper on the walls of his den? You can say that’s “custom leather wallpaper.”
  1. The lake that glows at night? It’s an eco-friendly house,  perfect for environmentalists who want to save energy at night.

Here is a list of the negative imagery that I highlighted in class for you:


 swamp

 

2/6/14

by

Today, we read The Battle with Grendel and The Monsters’ Lair. If you missed this, please make sure that you get the highlights from the Yellow Folder.

Beowulf NotesWe also created a question for each of the two headings –

The Battle with Grendel is on the BRIGHT YELLOW post-it and The  Monsters’ Lair is on the ORANGE post-it.

Then, instead of making you guys work on Sell This Swamp (which my classes usually do), I decided to be nice and exclude this assignment, and that gives you guys time to work on your Beo-Boast and/or your Metaphorical Response (this is the third day that I have given to you to work on the MR).

These are both major grades and will be due tomorrow at the end of the school day. Remember – progress reports will be printed on Monday morning, so if you don’t want a zero for a major grade (or two), you’ll need to turn these assignments in. If you turn something in over the weekend AFTER I’ve graded, just let me know on Monday and I can take the zero away for the progress report.

shelden