1. Suggested Reading Schedule
Reading Assignments
Responding to Reading
Day 1: Grendel
Take 1 set of THIEVVES notes
Day 2: Beowulf, The Battle With Grendel, Grendel’s Mother
Take a total of 3 sets of THIEVVES notes today (1 on each section)
Day 3: The Battle With Grendel’s Mother, Beowulf’s Last Battle
Write and answer 2 questions from the “Question Bookmark” (on front of bookmark) about “The Battle With Grendel’s Mother”
Using the QUESTION STEMS, CREATE 2 NEW QUESTIONS (and answer them) about “Beowulf’s Last Battle”
Day 4: The Death of Beowulf, Mourning Beowulf
POP Paragraph when done with reading (teacher directions to come)

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3. Manuscript’s Timeline
Events in the poem – 5th century
Christian poet composed poem
8th – early 11th century
Handwritten by a monk
Written in Old English
Damaged by fire in 1731
Currently at British Library (a museum)

4. Old English…let’s listen
Prologue Benjamin Bagby

5. Modern English Beowulf Passage Old English Beowulf Passage
Modern English Beowulf Passage
So. The Spear-Danes in days gone by
and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness.
We have heard of those princes’ heroic campaigns.
There was Shield Sheafson, scourge of many tribes,
a wrecker of mead-benches, rampaging among foes.
This terror of the hall-troops had come far.
A founding to start with,
he would flourish later on
as his powers waxed and his worth was proved.
In the end each clan on the outlying coasts
beyond the whale-road had to yield to him
and begin to pay tribute. That was one good king.
Afterwards a boy-child was born to Shield,
a cub in the yard, a comfort sent
by God to that nation. He knew what they had tholed,
the long times and troubles they’d come through
without a leader;
Old English Beowulf Passage

6. Setting: Scandinavia