1) INDEPENDENT OR DEPENDENT CLAUSE?

2) SENTENCE TYPE Use your PINK notes!

give a yearbook to whoever

paid for one

“FAME COMES TO THE MEN WHO MEAN TO WIN

IT.” - BEOWULF

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BEOWULF NOTESBEOWULF NOTES

• Started in the oral tradition, passed down by scops (traveling minstrels)

• Written in the 1000s in Old English

• Started in the oral tradition, passed down by scops (traveling minstrels)

• Written in the 1000s in Old English

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BEOWULF NOTESBEOWULF NOTES

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Hero – a man distinguished

by nobility, strength, and courage above all others

Hero – a man distinguished

by nobility, strength, and courage above all others

BEOWULF NOTESBEOWULF NOTESEPIC - long narrative poem (usually oral) celebrating the deeds of hero or legendary figure

– Begins in Medias Res (middle of the story)– Serious manner / elevated language

» Ex. It uses epithets, kennings, similes– Good vs. Evil, supernatural entities– Represents national, culture or religious values

EPIC - long narrative poem (usually oral) celebrating the deeds of hero or legendary figure

– Begins in Medias Res (middle of the story)– Serious manner / elevated language

» Ex. It uses epithets, kennings, similes– Good vs. Evil, supernatural entities– Represents national, culture or religious values

Ex’s. Virgil’s Anied, Dante’s Divine Comedy/Inferno,

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B eowulf: W ho’s W ho?

Beowulf takes place in 6th century Scandanavia.

DANES (Denmark)

GEATS (Sweden)

King Hrothgar (Owner and builder of

Herot - a castle)

King Higlac (Hrothgar’s Counsin)

Beowulf (strongest warrior, nephew to Higlac)

Grendel (Monster attacking Herot;

a descendent of Cain)

Unferth (Proud Danish warrior)

Grendel’s Mom (She doesn’t get a

name…sorry)

*Beowulf agrees to help kill Grendel for

King Hrothgar.

Wiglaf (One of Beowulf’s men)

Edgetho (Beowulf’s father,

King Higlac’s brother)

Healfdane (King Hrothgar’s father)

BEOWULF TRAILERBEOWULF TRAILER

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9qpqyO_dmU

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9qpqyO_dmU

Here are a few of the many variations of pictures featuring Beowulf and other characters from the great epic poem Beowulf.

Authentic photographs of a helmet, ship, and shield that would’ve been used during the time in which Beowulf takes place – 6th century A.D.

Tales of the Heroic Ages: Siegfried and Beowulf by George T. Tobin in 1901

Beowulf battling Breca.

Beowulf landing on Danish soil.

Beowulf in Herot

The death of Beowulf

Drawings from J.R. Skelton’s 1908 Children’s book on Beowulf

John Gardner wrote a novel

called Grendel, written about Beowulf from

Grendel’s point of view.

Beowulf was turned into a comic book/graphic novel by Garith Hinds.

Beowulf has been made into several film versions.

The Illustrated “Political”

Beowulf

The Illustrated “Political”

Beowulf

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