UPCOMING MAJOR WORK
**Now past due: Final Draft, Personal Essay (Hard Copy/turnitin.com)**
Friday, Oct. 3--Open-book assessment on the three lyric poems (short poems from the Exeter Book)
Content, thematic ideas, connection with Anglo-Saxon culture, poetic devices . . . You'll need the Poetic Devices hand-out and the Michael Alexander translation of "The Wife's Complaint."
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
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.
TODAY IN CLASS
Beowulf: Nearly line by line going-over of the rest of the Prologue (more connections with the Sutton Hoo ship burial) and Section 1. We started Section 2, getting no farther than Grendel's second attack and the consequences, ending with "Hate had triumphed."
Deliberate digressions from the text into two directions: how aspects of motivation for Grendel are shared with a well-known Dr. Seuss character, the Grinch. But then we looked at the deeper motivation (evil, in opposition to good) for Grendel, looking closely at his heritage (a warped form of "genealogy"). That included some perspective on the fact that the literature we study does contain material that reflects Biblical material, both old and (sometimes) new testaments. Recognizing the references and being to fill out the rest of the associated story are a necessary part of understanding the literature.
FOR TOMORROW
Read the rest of Section 2, and Section 3 (pp. 8-13).
TODAY IN CLASS
Beowulf: Nearly line by line going-over of the rest of the Prologue (more connections with the Sutton Hoo ship burial) and Section 1. We started Section 2, getting no farther than Grendel's second attack and the consequences, ending with "Hate had triumphed."
Deliberate digressions from the text into two directions: how aspects of motivation for Grendel are shared with a well-known Dr. Seuss character, the Grinch. But then we looked at the deeper motivation (evil, in opposition to good) for Grendel, looking closely at his heritage (a warped form of "genealogy"). That included some perspective on the fact that the literature we study does contain material that reflects Biblical material, both old and (sometimes) new testaments. Recognizing the references and being to fill out the rest of the associated story are a necessary part of understanding the literature.
FOR TOMORROW
Read the rest of Section 2, and Section 3 (pp. 8-13).
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