March
28
Beowulf Review
Whole Class Discussion
Yesterday, we finished our reading from Burton Raffel’s translation of Beowulf. So now let’s take the first part of class today to do a little review and work on this week’s A-List Academic Word = Integrate – To make whole by combining the different parts into one: to join or make something part of a larger unit. Combine – Incorporate – Synthesize
- How do each of the different parts from Beowulf fit into our larger study of The Hero’s Journey? (This is an opportunity for you to integrate each section of the poem into the bigger monomyth model)
- The Wrath of Grendel
- The Coming of Beowulf
- The Battle with Grendel
- The Monster’s Lair
- The Battle With Grendel’s Mother
- The Last Battle
- The Spoils
- The Farewell
Word Analysis: Latin Root – sol –
Grammar and Style Lesson: Appositives and Appositive Phrases
As an exit ticket today – Make a comment on this blog post in which you write a description of Grendel, using two appositive phrases that have not already been used.
Grendel, who lives in a marsh near the kingdom, terrorizes the whole kingdom and slays the soldier. He kills the soldiers with his sharp teeth and claws, until Beowulf tears his arm off. He has a great fight with Beowulf but loses and returns to his lair to die.
“Beowulf, son of Ecgtheow”
“Hrothgar, their lord, sat joyless”
Grendel, an evil monster, came up from the water to eat the men of the nearby town. His skin, unbreakable by sword, was ripped to pieces by Beuwolf’s hands.
Grendel, the monstrous beast, escaped to the marsh, his mother’s home.
Grendel, with his swift claws and powerful jaws, snuck to Hrothgar’s home with hopes to kill.
Grendel, who had been terrorizing Hrothgar’s people, was finally dead thanks to Beowulf.
The dragon, the final villan that Beowulf faces and the only monster to have survived a blow from his sword, dies shortly before Beowulf after the battle is complete.
Grendel, a vicious monster and a killer, destroyed many lives.
Grendel, with his matted hair and razor claws, flashed an evil grin, blood dripping from his teeth all the while.
Grendel, a demon and a monster that ate others, was Beuwolf’s first true enemy.
Grendel’s mother; was a huge scary villian and she was seeking revenge from her sons death.
Grendel’s mother
And all at once the greedy she-wolf/ Who’d ruled those waters for half a hundred/ Years discovered him
She fell, Grendel’s fierce mother, and the Geats/ Proud prince was ready to leap on her
Beowulf, Higlac’s follower and strongest of the Geats, son of Ecgtheow, is a main character.
Grendel rose up from the foot of the misty hills and bogs, bearing God’s hatred, hoping to kill anyone he could trap on his trip to high Herot, moving quickly and silently towards the gold-shinning hall.
Grendel, a man-eating demon, came every night to Heorot to kill the Danes, the people of Denmark, because of the commotion they made.
In the epic “from Beowulf” Grendel, the son of a terrifying monster, is a menace to the people of Herot. Grendel, a giant man-murdering monster, kills people mercilessly until he is finally killed by Beowulf.
Grendel’s mother, the mother of a terrifying monster, is a villain that lives underwater. She tries to get revenge for her son’s death until she, slayer of man, is killed by Beowulf.
The dragon’s flames, burning red and orange colors, attempted at defeating Beowulf and his Geats.
Grendel, always thirsty for blood, often slipped into the camps of Hrothgar’s men and killed many before meeting Beowulf, a strong and mighty warrior.
Grendel’s mother, the second and one of the most challenging dragons Beowulf battled, was very strong.
Grendel, hated by the people of Herot, is a monster in the Beowulf epic. He is an ugly demon born from the depths of Hell. His claws, sharp enough to rip a human to shreds, are his signature weapons. The people of Herot lived in fear and even fled because of him.
1. Grendel’s mother, a inconsolable old witch, fought to her gloomy death with Beowulf.
2. Grendel’s birth giver, a dark and mournful woman, lives in a dark mudhole of a lake.
Grendel, more silent than night and more ruthless than anyone.
Grendel is an evil spirt who is as powerful as he is easily annoyed. He is also worthless and deadly.
Matthey, good attempt, but I think you are confusing other descriptors with appositives. Remember appositives are nouns or pronouns placed next to another noun or pronoun to identify or explain it. Your example might be turned into Grendel, evil spirit and worthless beast, is as powerful as he is easily annoyed. In this example evil spirit and worthless beast are both appositives (nouns) the describe Grendel.
Grendle, a crued person, was not being kind.
Grendle, a monstosity, was acting entirely different.
he is a mean and hateful thing
Incorrect, mean and hateful are adjectives and therefor not appositives.
Grendel was coming hopping that he was gonna kill Beowulf.
That Grendel is a hateful man.
Willow, good attempt, but I think you are confusing other descriptors with appositives. Remember appositives are nouns or pronouns placed next to another noun or pronoun to identify or explain it.
Grendel is a very mean and a very inconsolable person.
Bryce good attempt, but I think you are confusing other descriptors with appositives. Remember appositives are nouns or pronouns placed next to another noun or pronoun to identify or explain it. In your example mean and inconsolable are adjectives and therefor not appositives.
Grendel the mean and hateful monster.
Grendel-a monster- acted in cowardness.
Grendel-a cowardly monster- was very mean and hateful.
Grendel is an unpleasant and otherwise unforgivable demon.
His actions near end the story for our hero.
Grendel, a giant, murdurous creature, was the monster of Beowulf.
Grendel is a horrible ogre who is the villain/monster in Beowulf.
Grendel, a monster; feared by all, not by Beowulf
Grendel is a man-eating demon.
Grendel is one of three antagonists.
Glen, good attempt, but I think you are confusing other descriptors with appositives. Remember appositives are nouns or pronouns placed next to another noun or pronoun to identify or explain it. In your example it would be Grendel, man eating demon and antagonist in the story of Beowulf.
Grendel, a monster who eats humans, in the book Beowulf.
Madison good attempt, but I think you are confusing other descriptors with appositives. Remember appositives are nouns or pronouns placed next to another noun or pronoun to identify or explain it.
Only Beowulf’s claws could harm Grendel, Soilders sword coun’t because Grendel was pure evil.
The boiling blood of Grendel, melted Boewulf’s sword.
Elizabeth, good attempt, but I think you are confusing other descriptors with appositives. Remember appositives are nouns or pronouns placed next to another noun or pronoun to identify or explain it.
He was spawned in that slime, conceived by a pair of those monsters born of Cain, muderous creatures banished by God, punished forever for the crime of Abels death.
“Beowulf, son of Ecgtheow”
Swords have no harm on Grendel, pure evilness blood melted their swords.
Grendel, monster of Herot, killer of men, is a beast whom could only be destroyed by someone such as Beowulf. He was made of evil In the purest of forms. True, violent anger.
Grendal who haunted the moors the wild marshes.
The world heard how Grendal filled his nights with horror .
Grendel, who was the enemy of Beowulf, was able to defeat all people who were not as strong as Beowulf.
Grendel was ferocious monster, more beastly than bears or wolves, was surpassed by Beowulf, who was more fearsome than even Grendal.
Grendel was tall, bigger than any man.
Grendel was ferocious, vicious man-eating demon.
Grendal- A monster, amd slient as the dark night.
Grendel, a rude person, acted scared
Beowulf feared no one
Grendel, a freakishly ugly monster, was hated by all people!
Grendel, the monster, was a very visious mean monster. Grendel killed many and everyone was scared of him.
So the living of Healfdane’s son, simmered, bitter and fresh, and no wisdom or strength could break it.
Grendel, more silent than night time and more ruthless than anyone.
Grendel is as evil as the sun is bright.
Grendel’s mother is an inconsolable old witch, fought to her gloomy death with Beowulf.
Grendel’s birth giver who is a dark and mournful woman, lives in a dark mudhole of a lake.