PPT-Beowulf Text and Context

HELP I need somebody Think of a time when you helped someone in need or someone helped you OR a time when you did NOT render help and wish you had Give a brief summary of the incident then answer the following analysis questions . When? Where? Who?. We may say that . Beowulf. was composed somewhere in England between about 521 AD . and1026 . AD . We . do not know for sure where in England the poem was composed. . Nor . do we know if the poem was composed by a single author, or whether it is the result of the merging together of ballads by different authors, nor whether the poem was significantly altered subsequent to its first written form.. Beowulf: . Context Review. Composed in . England. by an . unknown Anglo-Saxon poet . (c. 750). Set in . Scandinavia. just . before Anglo-Saxon migration . (c. 520). Celts . reside in England during . Thursday, September 8th. Warm-up…Word Study. Choose a word(s) from Unit 1.. Define the word.. List synonyms and antonyms.. Use the word in your own context sentence.. Draw an image that is related to the word and its context.. Where is context important?. Ao3: . Exploring the ways in which the . context . (when and where it was written, what the social and historical background is) influenced the text; how it has been read/ received in different contexts since then. . Beowulf Bell-Ringers. Bell Ringer - Beowulf. From either the . Grendel. or . Beowulf. sub-section that we have read so far, find ONE example of the following:. Kenning. Alliteration. Evidence of a Christian Monk narrator. the dark?. Why Study Beowulf?. Woody Allen’s opinion. Seamus Heaney's opinion. In reference to Grendel. bit into his bone-. lappings. , bolted down his blood. and gorged on him in lumps, leaving the body. Beowulf goes to Denmark and fights Grendel. Beowulf fights Grendel’s mom. Back home as king of the Geats, Beowulf fights a Dragon. Grendel. Is a monster descended from Cain (of Cain and Abel fame). He is willing to risk his life in order to earn fame by killing . Grendal. .. What weapon does Beowulf use to kill . Grendel. ?. His hands. To what does the poet give credit for Beowulf’s victory over . Composed in Old English. Alliterative measure. Oral epic handed down. Archetypal tales of monsters, god-fashioned weapons, descents to the underworld, fights with dragons, and hero’s quest to save a community threatened by evil. Can you answer them like our epic hero? (a.k.a. like a BOSS?!). QUESTION #1. What does Beowulf do for 50 long years?. A) Battle back and forth with Grendel. B) Serve as Hrothgar’s personal security guard. Three Levels of Context. Contextualization – Incorporating the text into your personal setting. Historical Context – Author, Recipient, Date, Situation.. . Three Levels of Context. Contextualization – Incorporating the text into your personal setting. my.hrw.com. Username: ggruet1. Password: ggruet1. Beowulf. Warm-up: what are the characteristics of an epic poem?. Enrichment Activity. Take out vocabulary words.. Using your list of words, select ten that you feel comfortable with using.. The Anglo-Saxons: 449 - 1066. 449 AD: Germanic mercenaries arrived from the Northern coasts of Europe to attack the Britons. Angles, Saxons, Jutes. By 500 AD, many invaders had settled.. . . . Archaeology has revealed much of the Anglo-Saxons, through cemeteries. A Modern School of Thought. New Historicism originated in the 1980s and 1990s through Harvard English Professor Stephen Greenblatt.. The New Historicism lens says that the context around a text is the best gateway into interpreting it. .