1. Write Like This: A Real-World Beowulf Article

2. No matter if you are writing a college entrance essay, starting a business, or running a non-profit foundation, telling your story is the most important part. Without a story, no one will connect to your words. Since the beginning of stories, with Beowulf being the first one in the English language, humans have used these narratives to shape their own lives and businesses.
For examples of how these universal themes are applied to real-life situations, read a couple of the following articles:
1. Forbes “Leadership Lessons from Beowulf” by Tom Post
2. The Spectator “Leadership Lessons from Beowulf” by Margareta Pagano
3. Contently “Content Marketing Lessons from Beowulf—Yes Beowulf”
4. The Art of Manliness “Lessons in Manliness from Beowulf” by Andrew Ratelle

3. Using a passion, interest, or future/current job, write an article about the top 5 lessons you learned from Beowulf that can be directly applied to your topic. This will have an introduction and a conclusion, but the middle part will be in 5 sections that have the lesson in bold and the explanation with examples under it. You will need to use Beowulf and one outside source with MLA citations within your article.

4. Thesis Examples from mentor textsW

8. Hook Examples from mentor textsW

12. Lesson Points and Elaboration in Mentor TextW

13. Notice the main point or main idea in bold, evidence from Beowulf, and explanation of point.

14. Notice the main point or main idea in bold, evidence from an outside source, and explanation of point.

15. Teacher’s Example
Never let one monster of a student ruin your entire class community. Teachers and students spend more time with each other than they do with their own family members, and because of this time together, it's important and natural to form a classroom community. When the community is good, everyone benefits. When the community is terrorized by one rogue student, everyone suffers. Hrothgar knew that nothing good would ever be able to happen in Herot after Grendel decided to destroy their peace, so he "gave places to the Geats" and welcomed Beowulf to help him rid his community of the troublemaker (Raffel 49).