Midterm

TRIMESTER 1 EXAM

1. Review all of Beowulf packet. 2. Review the sections you read in Grendel. 3. Be sure you understand the objectives focused on in this unit: 4. Review comma and semi colon rules 5. Review your sonnet packet, especially the form of a sonnet.
 * Students will analyze and discuss a revisionary interpretation (Grendel) of the epic poem Beowulf, evaluating how each version interprets the source text and the effect of perspective/POV on the reader. 11.12.RL.7
 * Students will use lecture notes regarding the 5 elements of an epic to better understand Beowulf, as well as prepare themselves to construct an epic tale of their own. (Students will use this knowledge of the 5 elements of an epic over the course of the unit to: RL.5 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text contribute to its overall meaning and aesthetic impact.)
 * Students will determine what the text of BEOWULF says explicitly, as well as what is inferred. 11.12. RL. 1
 * Students will be moving toward: Analyzing the impact of author’s choices regarding how to develop the epic poem through setting, action order, word choice, character development, as well as identify/analyze impact of alliteration and kennings usage in Anglo Saxon Literature (Beowulf). 11.12.RL. 3