1. Reminders: Follow punctuation Look for subject/verb (who is doing what
Reminders: Follow punctuation Look for subject/verb (who is doing what?) Visualize the scene Don’t get lost in description (kennings, alliterations)

2. DANES GEATS Who’s Who? King: ________________ Mead hall: ____________
Strengths/Weaknesses
Conflict:
Plan:
King: ________________
Hero: _______________
# of men:_____________
Why do they come?
Strengths/Weaknesses

3. What phrases help establish that Grendel is one bad dude?
Grendel L 1-104
Why is Grendel upset?
What phrases help establish that Grendel is one bad dude?

4. Skill Check
…broke their long feast with tears and laments for the dead (43-44) Laments must be _________ …no savage assault quench his lust for evil (L 52-3) In your own words: _________

5. Grendel L 1-104
Evaluate what kind of a leader King Hrothgar is citing evidence…..
+/- adjective ___________________
Why? 3 specific things he does or
doesn’t do

6. Beowulf’s Boast L
List 3 reasons Beowulf mentions as reasons for helping King Hrothgar.

7. Skill Check Who/What are these things?
Protector of the Danes _______________ 190
The best of all mead halls ______________ 145
When the moon hangs in the sky _________ 146
Why does Beowulf repeat himself ?
“If he can, if he can” L 178
Cite some imagery that adds to the story.

8. Hrothgar’s Response L 190-231 in your own words…… _________________

9. The Battle with Grendel L 233-397
Key details

10. Skill Check

11. Reminders: Follow punctuation Look for subject/verb (who is doing what
Reminders: Follow punctuation Look for subject/verb (who is doing what?) Visualize the scene Don’t get lost in description (kennings, alliterations)

12. Day Recap
-3 Main Scenes-

13. How many sentences are here?
Skill Check
How many sentences are here?
Mark them

14. Grendel’s Mother L
Describe her lair: -
Draw it

15. The Battle with Grendel’s Mother L 450-605
Identify the 5 most important lines
Why?

16. Skill Check Why are these elements repeated?
What effect would that have on the audience?

17. Skill Check
Determine appropriate synonyms for the following:
Behind hem the water slowly thickened as the monsters’ blood came seeping up.
Weave a net of words
375 Then old and young rejoiced, turned back from that happy pilgrimage…

18. Skill Check
Compare and contrast each character’s strengths and weaknesses. Beowulf Grendel Grendel’s mother

19. Skill Check
Find 3 phrases that support each concept Beowulf’s might Grendel’s mother’s evil/rage Haunted/Magical Place

20. Day Recap

21. Reminders: Follow punctuation Look for subject/verb (who is doing what
Reminders: Follow punctuation Look for subject/verb (who is doing what?) Visualize the scene Don’t get lost in description (kennings, alliterations) Group Members: _________________________________

22. Skill Check L
Highlight 3 pieces of evidence that show Beowulf’s bravado, even in old age.
What are
“hot words”? _________
L 623

23. Cite 3 lines/phrases in the fight that foreshadow Beowulf’s fate.
Beowulf’s Last Battle L
Cite 3 lines/phrases in the fight that foreshadow Beowulf’s fate.
_____________________

24. Skill Check
Compare Wiglaf’s traits as a leader to Beowulf. L Beowulf Wiglaf

25. The Death of Beowulf L
Explain the following phrases in Beowulf’s speech: “I can die, here, knowing the Lord of all life has never watched me wash my sword in blood born of my own family.” L ______________________________________ “last of all prizes” L762 ___________________________________

26. The Death of Beowulf L
-How would you describe Wiglaf’s speech to his men?
-What would your group add to his speech and why?