Sunday, August 20, 2006

Tuesday, August 22

Focus

· Combining Sentences 8-14

· Beowulf and Archetypes

Class work

· Warm up: Correct the sentences on your note sheet

· Combining sentences: Lesson 2, Using Compound Elements (Continued from Monday)

  • Watch the Seamus Haney video and take notes. (You can use them on your quiz tomorrow.)
  • Discuss part 1 of Beowulf and answer the questions 1-8 on page 32 as a class

· Read from Grendel and Life in 999: A Grim Struggle as well as Beowulf and answer the questions 9 and 10 on page 32 as a class.

To be turned in Today

· Lesson 2 on combining sentences.

Homework

· Continue working on your summer reading project.

  • Read and take notes over the introduction to the Seamus Haney versioin of Beowulf.

On-Going Projects

· Beowulf

· Summer reading projects

Portfolio Additions

· Beowulf Heroism quickwrite