| First Quarter
Recurring assignments:
Daily journals
Poetry Responses due each Monday the class meets
Unit One – Introduction to the Course (Week One)
Content and/or Skills Taught:
- overview of the materials and skills to be covered in the course.
- expectations for reading the selected works, in classand extended
writing assignments, discussions, and the literature to be covered.
- Summer Reading Evaluations and the Writing Process
- Beowulf Reading Assignment
- College Essays
Unit Two – Anglo Saxon Literature (Weeks Three and Four)
- Beowulf and Grendel (Gardner)
- discussion day on Beowulf,
- lecture and notetaking on Anglo-Saxon culture from Elements of Literature.
- create individual outlines for an essay comparing and contrasting two
locations in the poem (final drafts will be turned in on Monday of the second
week)
- Anglo-Saxon kennings and shorter poems (from Elements of Literature) will
- discussion days on the philosophies in Grendel, as well as the adaptation
of the story for a modern audience.
- analyze and argue using textual details from both works, and to decide
which of theworks has more artistic and cultural value for its time
- craft a literary review of each work, wherein students urgereaders to
enjoy or avoid the literature, giving persuasive reasons.
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