CP English 12
9.8.15 – 9.15.15
Tuesday, September 8
Objective:Students will support responses to questions with textual support
Review highlights of Beowulf Part I
Go over questions
Paraphrasing
Assignment
Review part 1: know highlighted vocabulary words (reparation, reprisal, loathsome, vehemently, infallible, extolled)
Wednesday, September 9
Objective:Students will demonstrate understanding of the epic poem Beowulf as well as conventions of Anglo-Saxon literature
Quiz:Beowulf, Part I
Begin Beowulf, Part 2
Assignment
Read Beowulf, Part 2 (pages 43 -49) and learn highlighted words
Thursday, September 10
Objective: Students will understand how prefixes and suffixes influenced the evolution of the English language
Vocabulary review
Discuss evolution of Anglo-Saxon prefixes: Work in groups to demonstrate understanding
Discuss Part 2 through textual questions
Friday, September 11
Objective:Students will understand how the epic connects Beowulf as a representation of Anglo-Saxon literature and history
Reviewthe epic and Anglo-Saxon conventions
Practice paraphrasing of key passages (group work)
Review Beowulf as a representation of Anglo-Saxon literature
Review outlining format
Monday, September 14: No school!
Tuesday, September 15
Objectives:Students will demonstrate understanding of the epic, knowledge of the vocabulary (prefixes, suffixes, words in context), and Beowulf
Unit Test:BeowulfAnglo-Saxon history
Anglo-Saxon Literature: Terms
caesura:(Latin: "a cutting") A break or pause in a line of poetry, dictated, usually, by the natural rhythm of the language…In [Old English] verse the caesura was used to indicate the half line.
comitatus:Germanic code of loyalty: Thanes or warriors, swore loyalty to the king for whom they fought and protected.In return, the king was expected to be generous with gifts of treasures and lands.
epic:A long narrative poem on a great and serious subject, related in an elevated style, and centered on a heroic or quasi-divine figure on whose actions depends the fate of a tribe, a nation, or the human race.
kenning:The term derives from the use of the Old Norse verbkenna'to know, recognize'…It is a device for introducing descriptive color or for suggesting associations without distracting attention from the essential statement.(example:helmberend—"helmet bearer" = "warrior"
scop:composers and storytellers ofAnglo-Saxon poetry:the entertainment of Anglo-Saxon times.They were to know a repertoire of tales and be able to compose tales of tribute to the patrons who financed them.
alliteration:Repetition of initial consonant sounds to create a rhythm and meaning (“. . . makegoodthegiftof the war-gear”)