1. What is the significance of oral tradition?
2. What are the characteristics of an epic and how does Beowulf conform to these characteristics?
3. How do the themes in Beowulf relate to the Anglo-Saxon period in history?
FINISH TEST OVER BEOWULF
Essential Questions:
1. What is the significance of oral tradition? 2. What are the characteristics of an epic and how does Beowulf conform to these characteristics? 3. How do the themes in Beowulf relate to the Anglo-Saxon period in history? FINISH TEST OVER BEOWULF
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Essential Questions: 1. What is the significance of oral tradition? 2. What are the characteristics of an epic and how does Beowulf conform to these characteristics? 3. How do the themes in Beowulf relate to the Anglo-Saxon period in history? TEST OVER BEOWULF Note: If you haven't turned in the translations activity, please make sure you do this. Essential Questions:
1. What is the significance of oral tradition? 2. What are the characteristics of an epic and how does Beowulf conform to these characteristics? 3. How do the themes in Beowulf relate to the Anglo-Saxon period in history? A. Opening Assignment: Work on comparison of translations B. Explain dichotomies. C. Closing: Discuss any questions and/or concerns. Note: Test over Beowulf will be tomorrow. You may finish the test on Monday. Essential Questions:
1. What is the significance of oral tradition? 2. What are the characteristics of an epic and how does Beowulf conform to these characteristics? 3. How do the themes in Beowulf relate to the Anglo-Saxon period in history? A. Opening Assignment: Practice AP Questions over Beowulf B. Discussion of Test and Additional Information about Beowulf C. Translations of Beowulf Activity D. Closing: Finish with any questions and/or concerns about Beowulf Essential Questions:
1. What is the significance of oral tradition? 2. What are the characteristics of an epic and how does Beowulf conform to these characteristics? 3. How do the themes in Beowulf relate to the Anglo-Saxon period in history? A. Opening Assignment: AP Practice Multiple Choice Questions B. Finish reading Beowulf. C. Closing: Complete graphic organizers for literary devices found in Beowulf. Note: Your second draft of your satire is due today. Please turn this in to the basket. As soon as I return everyone's reviewed satire, I will give you a due date for the final draft. Also, I will be returning your brainstorming for your urban legend. Today you will receive a story map graphic organizer. This organizer will serve as your outline for your legend. The story map is due Wednesday, 10/29. Essential Questions:
1. What is the significance of oral tradition? 2. What are the characteristics of an epic and how does Beowulf conform to these characteristics? 3. How do the themes in Beowulf relate to the Anglo-Saxon period in history? CONTINUE READING BEOWULF. Essential Questions:
1. What is the significance of oral tradition? 2. What are the characteristics of an epic and how does Beowulf conform to these characteristics? 3. How do the themes in Beowulf relate to the Anglo-Saxon period in history? A. Opening Assignment: AP FLASHCARDS On a notecard, complete the following practice exercises 1. The passage "The rain night had ushered in a misty morning--half frost, half drizzle--and temporary brooks crossed our path, gurgling from the uplands" contain which figurative devices? 2. Will Loman is the protagonist in Death of a Salesman, but as a character he is a failure; therefore, he is an example of what? 3. The passage "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun," from Romeo and Juliet, contains which figurative device? 4. The passage "He is not ugly" is an example of what? 5. What type of criticism would argue that an analysis of plot, character development, setting, tone, diction, images, and themes would ultimately reveal the meaning of the novel Atonement? B. Continue reading Beowulf. C. Closing: Review what we have read thus far. Essential Questions:
1. What is the significance of oral tradition? 2. What are the characteristics of an epic and how does Beowulf conform to these characteristics? 3. How do the themes in Beowulf relate to the Anglo-Saxon period in history? A. Opening Assignment: AP FLASHCARDS On a notecard, complete the following practice exercises. 1. The sentence "Word, phrases, skipped through my mind" is an example of what? 2. The statement "My AP English teacher doesn't yell, he projects" is an example of what? 3. What type of literary criticism focuses on female characters, such Dounia and Sonia in Crime and Punishment? 4. Epic poems typically have invocations to the muses, begin in medias res, have long lists of people and events, and contain vast amounts of repetition. All of these things are known as what? 5. The passage "Milton, thou should'st be living at this hour" provides an example of what literary device? B. Begin reading Beowulf. C. Closing: Review what we have read thus far. Essential Questions:
1. What is the significance of oral tradition? 2. What are the characteristics of an epic and how does Beowulf conform to these characteristics? 3. How do the themes in Beowulf relate to the Anglo-Saxon period in history? A. Opening Assignment: AP FLASHCARDS On a notecard, answer the following practice exercises. 1. The passage "John Smith is a sanitation engineer" is an example of what literary device? 2. Characters in Julius Caesar mention a clock, which didn't exist at that point in time. This is an example of what? 3. The word pairs "laughter/slaughter," "dive/give," and "laid/said" are all examples of what? 4. Beowulf is an epic poem; The Awakening is a novella; Atonement is a novel; and "Young Goodman Brown" is a short story. Each of theses is an example of what? 5. The sound in the lines "The moan of doves in immemorial elms, / And murmuring of innumerable bees" is an example of what? B. Begin reading Beowulf. C. Closing: Review what we have read thus far. Essential Questions:
1. What is the significance of oral tradition? 2. What are the characteristics of an epic and how does Beowulf conform to these characteristics? 3. How do the themes in Beowulf relate to the Anglo-Saxon period in history? A. Opening Assignment: Finish peer revisions of satire rough draft. If I haven't yet seen your draft, you need to make sure that I see it today. Also, second drafts will be due Monday, 10/27. I will review those drafts. If you want me to review your MLA formatting, please specify this when you turn in your second draft. B. Begin reading Beowulf. C. Closing: Review what we have read thus far. Note: Don't forget to turn in your urban legend brainstorming. |
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