Monday - "Writer's Notebook: Your support system: Beowulf took 14 of his bravest warriors with him to fight the monsters in Hrothgar's kingdom. Who are your "14 warriors"? How are these people there for you when life gets tough?"
Tuesday - Grammar Minutes - "Usage Problems" - Who & Whom
Wednesday - Writer's Notebook: "Grendel represents the evil and adversity that humanity must overcome. Who or what are your Grendels that you face? What are your greatest strengths that may help you defeat your own personal Grendels?"
Thursday - Grammar Minutes - "Usage Problems" - Lie/Lay; Sit/Set; Rise/Raise; Further/Farther; Less/Fewer
Friday - Writer's Notebook: "Friday Freewrite!" Notebooks due today!
- Introduce Vocabulary Lesson 2.
- Continue reading Beowulf. Read "The Coming of Beowulf" and "The Battle with Grendel." Complete Summarization Chart for these sections.
Tuesday - Grammar Minutes - "Usage Problems" - Who & Whom
- Independent reading of Beowulf followed by paired summarizations.
Wednesday - Writer's Notebook: "Grendel represents the evil and adversity that humanity must overcome. Who or what are your Grendels that you face? What are your greatest strengths that may help you defeat your own personal Grendels?"
- Read Beowulf and summarize sections
Thursday - Grammar Minutes - "Usage Problems" - Lie/Lay; Sit/Set; Rise/Raise; Further/Farther; Less/Fewer
- Annotation/Reading Check of Parallel Novel. You should be 1/4 through the book!
- Finish Beowulf/Summarization Chart
- HW - Write original sentences using the vocabulary words of Lesson 2..
Friday - Writer's Notebook: "Friday Freewrite!" Notebooks due today!
- Compare and Contrast sections of John Gardner's Grendel (Chapters 5 & 12) with Beowulf. On a separate piece of paper:
- Identify new characteristics you discovered about Grendel
- Why can no human weapons harm him?
- How did the stories change with the shift in point-of-view?
- Identify new characteristics you discovered about Grendel
- Test on Tuesday over Archetypes, Beowulf, and Grendel