Senior English Class Logs
10/8-9: Pre-Macbeth Discussion
08 October 2008 10:24 AM
Zero Hour Research Outline Presentation
18 September 2008 03:58 PM
Zero Hour Gender Discussion Topics
09 September 2008 09:59 AM
4th Period Homework - Due 8/21
19 August 2008 09:07 PM
1.
Summary of events of Beowulf vs. Grendel’s Mother.
2. Reasons why Beowulf or Grendel’s Mother might have been offended (think back on your Anglo-Saxon culture notes).
3. Similarities and differences between Beowulf’s attack on Grendel’s Mother, Grendel’s fight with Beowulf, and Grendel’s attack on the men of Herot.
Plus the reading notes in the traditional reading notes format.....
2. Reasons why Beowulf or Grendel’s Mother might have been offended (think back on your Anglo-Saxon culture notes).
3. Similarities and differences between Beowulf’s attack on Grendel’s Mother, Grendel’s fight with Beowulf, and Grendel’s attack on the men of Herot.
Plus the reading notes in the traditional reading notes format.....
8/11-12: Christian & Pagan imagery in Beowulf
12 August 2008 05:24 PM
Simple
presentation on the basics of Christian & Pagan thought. Use
this information to analyze the text and determine whether or not
Beowulf was originally a Christian or Pagan text.
Notes
Begin looking for images and attitudes that reflect Christian or Pagan values. Your thesis for your essay evaluating your mastery of concepts in Beowulf and preparation for the Senior Exit Project research paper will be a response to the following thesis question:
Is Beowulf primarily a Christian or Pagan text?
Your response will be graded not on your answer, but on how well you use evidence cited from Beowulf to support your thesis.
Notes
Begin looking for images and attitudes that reflect Christian or Pagan values. Your thesis for your essay evaluating your mastery of concepts in Beowulf and preparation for the Senior Exit Project research paper will be a response to the following thesis question:
Is Beowulf primarily a Christian or Pagan text?
Your response will be graded not on your answer, but on how well you use evidence cited from Beowulf to support your thesis.
Bellwork 8/12
12 August 2008 07:06 AM
Bellwork:
Write a summary of the events of Part 3 of our Beowulf reading, found at http://www.lnstar.com/literature/beowulf/beowulf3.htm.
15 lines.
Write a summary of the events of Part 3 of our Beowulf reading, found at http://www.lnstar.com/literature/beowulf/beowulf3.htm.
15 lines.
8/4-5: Verbs; Reading Beowulf
05 August 2008 08:43 AM
Beowulf translations can be
found at the First Quarter Materials
page.
Scan through the list of resources
and explore your options for modern translations of Beowulf. Read
the easier ones if you need to, but remember to use the more
difficult versions for your Assigned Reading Focus.
Today’s Assigned Reading Focus is to list as many examples of allusions, alliteration, kennings, personification, and elements of Anglo-Saxon culture as you can, in the portion of Beowulf that deals with Grendel’s attack on Herot.
Notes
Today’s Assigned Reading Focus is to list as many examples of allusions, alliteration, kennings, personification, and elements of Anglo-Saxon culture as you can, in the portion of Beowulf that deals with Grendel’s attack on Herot.
Notes
7/22: Lit Terms Posters
22 July 2008 02:04 PM
Today’s
lesson plan changed a bit (you might get used to that now; this
blog was set up for that very reason!).
Bellwork:
What are your expectations for this course? What are your expectations for me? What are your expectations for yourself?
Nouns PowerPoint presentation
Brief tour of MrTonk.com
Students got into groups and each group was assigned a literary term. Groups created posters that contained only an image - text was only allowed in order to understand the image. Each image must help explain each literary term - or, as I told 4th hour, the picture IS your definition of the term. 4th hour was required to write three examples.
Zero hour put their posters on the wall; 4th hour was required to find the zero hour poster corresponding to their own groups’ posters and put their posters up next to zero hour’s posters.
Homework assigned:
Read “The Seafarer”. Take two-page reading notes using this format, where the squiggly line represents the center of the notebook when you have a page on the left and a page on the right. Assigned reading focus: examples of literary terms (from the previous day’s list) found in “The Seafarer.”
Bellwork:
What are your expectations for this course? What are your expectations for me? What are your expectations for yourself?
Nouns PowerPoint presentation
Brief tour of MrTonk.com
Students got into groups and each group was assigned a literary term. Groups created posters that contained only an image - text was only allowed in order to understand the image. Each image must help explain each literary term - or, as I told 4th hour, the picture IS your definition of the term. 4th hour was required to write three examples.
Zero hour put their posters on the wall; 4th hour was required to find the zero hour poster corresponding to their own groups’ posters and put their posters up next to zero hour’s posters.
Homework assigned:
Read “The Seafarer”. Take two-page reading notes using this format, where the squiggly line represents the center of the notebook when you have a page on the left and a page on the right. Assigned reading focus: examples of literary terms (from the previous day’s list) found in “The Seafarer.”
First Day: Zero Hour
21 July 2008 08:51 AM
See the
4th hour summary, below. You can also click on “Podcast” in this
entry to hear and view today’s presentation.
Podcast
Podcast
First day
18 July 2008 12:53 PM
Lots of
information here if you poke around a bit. Hover your mouse over
“Senior English” on the left and explore what you find there. In
addition, check out what is available on the Notes from the
Classroom menu and the File Cabinet.
Don’t forget: Literary terms definitions in your own words due Tuesday!
Metaphor
Symbol
Personification
Simile
Allusion
Tone
Satire
Narrative
Alliteration
Irony
In addition: join Turnitin.com using the information in your syllabus, find a book to read, and join the Google email group. For more information, click the link below or visit the lesson plan page. Speaking of the lesson plan page, if you read it for Jul 18, no, we didn’t do the Cornell Notes. Everything was so rushed that it just didn’t really work out. Sue me.
Podcast
Don’t forget: Literary terms definitions in your own words due Tuesday!
Metaphor
Symbol
Personification
Simile
Allusion
Tone
Satire
Narrative
Alliteration
Irony
In addition: join Turnitin.com using the information in your syllabus, find a book to read, and join the Google email group. For more information, click the link below or visit the lesson plan page. Speaking of the lesson plan page, if you read it for Jul 18, no, we didn’t do the Cornell Notes. Everything was so rushed that it just didn’t really work out. Sue me.
Podcast