PPT-Beowulf Boast and Feast Activity

Look back at the section of the poem titled The Coming of Beowulf lines 237270 This is Beowulfs introduction and boast to King Hrothgar Use this boast as a model to write your own introduction Your boast should be about 10 lines Make sure you include. Comparison Unit. What We Do . K. now:. Beowulf is the oldest surviving English poem. It’s written in Old English (or Anglo-Saxon), which is the basis for the language we speak today.. Some of the . 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 . 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: . 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 . Beowulf. (pg. 18 ). Beowulf. in Old English. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L7VTH8ii_8. Music Video. http. ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiBaSqO7n9U. The Monster Grendel. …. 1. What phrase points to Grendel’s evil nature?. 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. Warm Up 9/26. What is Beowulf about so far? Describe setting/events…. What characters have been introduced?. Activity. Read line 1-85. . Answer all questions in section I Beowulf.. Translate a portion of the text (assigned by Mr. Brown). Write down translation, minimum 3 sentences, on the board.. 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. Introduction. 1. . McGarvey calls this "the parable of the royal wedding.". 2. . Context of mounting tension:. a. . Triumphal entry into Jerusalem. . b. . Had attacked the merchandising in temple 2nd time. - Unknown – the poem has been translated several times (the version we are working with is translated by Seamus Heaney). G. enre . - Alliterative . verse; elegy; resembles heroic epic, though smaller in scope than most classical . Part One Chapter One state occasions like this. It had only faltered when Loki had suggested showing that much teeth made it very obvious there was something stuck in them, and he had fumbled with his