Overview of Anglo-Saxon Unit:

Part I:

• "The Seafarer" content (pp. 104-107)
• New literary terms--p. 41, additional hand-out Poetic Devices--> practice; apply to "The Seafarer"
• Introduction to Anglo-Saxon history/culture/literature:  pp. 23-27 of the text, hand-out, lecture notes/graphic organizer--some assessment/quiz over historical background
• Briefly apply new info to "The Seafarer"
• Two more lyric poems
• Test over material to this point 

Part II:  the epic poem Beowulf (main text from bookroom, support material from your regular textbook)
                Will include varied assignments, quizzes, tests, an essay (possibly one of the major process
                 essays/perhaps a shorter one); definitely a group project)

TODAY IN CLASS
Review of kennings; additional examples of student-generated kennings.  Text-based examples of alliteration and assonance drawn from "The Seafarer."  Time to read pp. 23-27 in the text.  Students used a former really short quiz for recording what "answers" came directly from the reading in the text book--you'll be adding to this after you read another background article and receive some additional lecture/discussion information.  You'll have a few more minutes to work on this tomorrow.

FOR TUESDAY
No outside work.

To a very few of you--I spoke individually with people in 1st and 2nd who are are missing either the hard copy of the Self-Definition or who have not submitted it to turnitin.com.  In 5th period I did not touch base with each person, but several of you are missing one or the other (or both!).  Please take care of this or see me ASAP if there is a problem.