Tag Archives: The Monster’s Lair

9/2/2016

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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!

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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:


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2/6/2015 – A

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HAR is a Houston real estate site where you can look for homes to buy or lease. I used it a lot when I was looking to buy a home. It’s actually really cool!

I want you to use the search feature and find three homes in your zip code: one home under 120,000, one home under 200,000, and one home over 200,000. Notice how the language changes between the different types of houses. If you found a foreclosure, a lot of times, they use the words “fixer-upper”, but that generally means that the house will be cheaper because it is not in good condition.

If you need help navigating the webpage, I can help you figure things out. 🙂

We read The Monsters’ Lair, which was really short, because it’s only one page (easy!) and looked at the descriptive language.

sell swampThen, we worked on Sell that Swamp – which can be found in BB. We used the following passage from Beowulf as guidance:

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2/6/14

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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.

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2/6/2013

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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