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.
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.