Objectives: Students Will Understand How Culture Influences the Literature of the Anglo-Saxon

CP English 12

9.23.13 – 10.1.13

Monday, September 23
Objectives: Analyze multiple interpretations a poem as well as recognize symbolism and imagery

Anglo-Saxon Riddles

“The Wanderer”

Tuesday, September 24

Objectives: Students will understand how culture influences the literature of the Anglo-Saxon era

Review of the material covered during the first interim period

Wednesday, September 25

Students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the literary conventions of the Anglo - Saxons

ASSESSMENT TEST: Details below

Thursday, September 26

Objectives: Students will demonstrate their understanding of the conventions of the elegy by incorporating them into their poetry.

Writing the elegy: Discussion of possible topics and requirements

Assignment (Due Monday, September 30)

Elegy (see directions below)

Friday, September 27

Students will understand the the conventions of satire and how they influence writing.

Introduction to Medieval literature

“Canterbury Tales”

Test Review

Vocabulary: reparation, reprisal, loathsome, vehemently, infallible, extolled, demeanor, gloat

Terms of Anglo-Saxon literature: caesura, kenning, alliteration, elegy, conventions of the epic, epic hero traits, archetype, comitatus, wergild, machinery

Anglo- Saxon history: Review outline and test

Chain of Being (notes can be found in the on-line classroom): Ptolemaic view of the universe, four elements, four bodily humors and what each represents; three interlocking parts of the chain (microcosm, macrocosm, body politic) and what each is represented by; the greatest sin and crime

Beowulf: Know major characters and places (Hrothgar, Beowulf, Grendel, Grendel’s mother, Unferth, Wiglaf, Herot) as well as details of plot

Poetry: “The Wanderer” “The Wife’s Lament” know characteristics of the elegy as well as content of the poems.

Skills: Know meanings of prefixes and suffixes; paraphrasing

Elegy Requirements: Anglo-Saxon poems concentrated on the retelling of great battles and wars, expressing sorrow for people lost, or a philosophical pondering of the mysteries of life and death. To recreate the style, pick something else you can write about dramatically. Your subject should have the potential for being expressed through strong emotions. It is also common to include a moral lesson in Anglo-Saxon poetry, so you may do this too if you wish.

Requirements:

The topic is open, but your poem must be serious and the subject viewed dramatically with strong word choice and a minimum of 16 lines. Use some the words that you selected from the elegiac poetry that you read for inspiration, and construct a poem that follows these Anglo Saxon conventions:

ü Use alliteration instead of meter and rhyme. You must use alliteration in at least 5 lines

ü Include caesuras in your lines for dramatic effect (use five spaces in each line)

ü (Example )

The lonely traveler longs for grace

For the mercy of God; grief hangs on.

ü Add at least two hyphenated kennings

ü 20 lines minimum

ü Your poem should not rhyme

ü Your poem should be titled and typed double spaced with the first word of each line capitalized

ü Include a note card that contains a neatly written premise of the elegy. Black ink and complete sentences required.

· All of these requirements must be met! Points will be deducted for any not followed!