Vocabulary Units 3 and 4

After completing the Vocabulary Units 3 and 4 exercises, you are now ready to write the

prompt for a read around.

Your prompt should contain 30 of the 40 vocabulary words,

used as the correct PART OF SPEECH, NUMBERED , and highlighted in your

text.

Topic:

Write a formal boast about yourself and read it for the class.

Your accomplishments may be academic, athletic, musical,

social, artistic, or whatever you are good at.

“Lay aside your humility!”

It must be appropriately Klein Klean (in the teacher’s opinion)!

Bobbe, Peter. "BEOWULF: The Boast." Web. 19 Jan. 2011.

Tell us your deeds, who your parents are, what you plan to do,

etc.

Here’s how the Anglo-Saxon

culture looked at boasting:

“a proclamation of all the positive and admirable qualities the individual thought himself to possess and the most optimistic possible forecast of his future”

Taylor, Kelly S. "Boasting." UNT - Department of Communication Studies. Web. 19 Jan. 2011.

“irrepressible joy and optimism, in the face of even the sternest adversity”

Taylor, Kelly S. "Boasting." UNT - Department of Communication Studies. Web. 19 Jan. 2011.

“Boasting is associated

consistently with the best and

most noble parts of life.”

Taylor, Kelly S. "Boasting." UNT - Department of Communication Studies. Web. 19 Jan. 2011.

“Boasts were taken seriously and

understood to be serious utterances with personal, social, legal,

and political consequences. “

Taylor, Kelly S. "Boasting." UNT - Department of Communication Studies. Web. 19 Jan. 2011.

Recent analyses of Anglo-Saxon

boasting emphasize its function as a

pledge.”

Taylor, Kelly S. "Boasting." UNT - Department of Communication Studies. Web. 19 Jan. 2011.

“The boast was a contract –

seriously made; to be seriously kept.”

See Beowulf’s boast on pages 47 and 48,

lines 236-270.

Taylor, Kelly S. "Boasting." UNT - Department of Communication Studies. Web. 19 Jan. 2011.

Submit to turnitin.com by Monday, October 1, by 7:30 a.m.

ALSO-- Bring a hard copy to class for the read around ON Monday,

October 1.