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CULMINATING PROJECT, a state high school graduation requirement: OCT. 15

12th grade: Senior English classes assign a Resume and and answer to Question #1 in September. Note: Resumes completed in Bridges in 10th grade cannot be used for your senior resume. All Seniors (even those not in English classes at IHS) must complete a resume and the typed answer to Question 1. The resume and question 1 are turned into the Career Center by October 15th of senior year. Senior Resume Guidelines and Expectations *

*CHECK THIS SOURCE OUT FOR SURE.  I am belatedly realizing that it is this sheet (created Oct. 31, 2013--so after last year's submissions) that lists Objective as a requirement on your culminating project resumes.  But today I asked for clarification from the College and Career Center, and the word is you do NOT need to include this for the Culminating Project if you are doing an academic resume.  Anyone planning to apply to college should be doing an academic resume; if you are planning to work next year, then the Employment Resume format is what you should follow.  And for that, starting with "Objective" is standard practice.

But here is why the one-page version is useful--it gives you a list of categories to pick and choose from (so you can find the best organization for your situation).  There is no one right way. 

Senior Packet for the Culminating Project

See the resume section of the College Resource Handbook for more help with resumes.

Both the resume and response to Question 1 must be typed, of course. Be sure to save them both in a way that can be accessed at school.

Our class--
Quiz--Friday, Oct. 17  Beowulf 
Background in the big lit book, the powerpoint (we will finish it), and the content of the poem from the Prologue through Ch. 26.  Poetry terms (still) plus scop, wergild, and the kenning for Beowulf's name.

TODAY IN CLASS
Pick up on Unferth:  note that Beowulf says Unferth was drunk--that he wouldn't have had the never to challenge him had he been sober.  Beowulf "cuts him some slack" as a result (530-534). However, Beowulf also accuses Unferth of something pretty serious--murdering his brothers (587-589). That's all we know about this right now . . .

Ch.10--the "disarming" scene and Beowulf's rationale for fighting without a weapon or armor
Ch. 11-12--Grendel's journey, intentions, arrival at Herot, the first victim, then the battle with Beowulf and its gruesome outcome. We also looked at the first few lines of Ch. 11 in Old English, noting the ominous sound and the intense alliteration.
Also in 11-12 (though we didn't find them in Old English) are important kennings for Grendel:  shepherd of evil, guardian of crime, and hell's captive.

Reading time --last 20 minutes of class.  Start with 13 and read until the end of class

FOR TUESDAY
Read through Section 22 (p. 67).
You're free to read more /much more, of course; many students find that reading this book once through fairly quickly and then re-reading as I give smaller assignments is the way to understand it best.