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What a great idea for an assignment! Where you can start is with the major events in the poem, as...
Posted by mrsmonica on Sep 19, 2009 in the Beowulf Group.
I love the Raffel version. It maintains the flow and beauty of the poetry, but the action is easy...
Posted by thewritingteacher on Sep 13, 2009 in the Beowulf Group.- Beowulf is the hero and Grendel the anti-hero. If you set up a chart and create a list of heroic...
Posted by thewritingteacher on Sep 8, 2009 in the Beowulf Group. - Beowulf is absolutely a hero, for he meets all of the standards: valor, loyalty, courage, skill,...
Posted by thewritingteacher on Sep 8, 2009 in the Beowulf Group. 
A kenning is two words joined together with a hyphen (-) eg. Loud-Laughter. It can also be a...
Posted by wackywah on Jun 3, 2009 in the Beowulf Group.
Beowulf meets the definition of an archetypal hero in that he is favored by or even partially...
Posted by epollock on May 26, 2009 in the Beowulf Group.
yes yes YES! beowulf put himself in harms way to protect and serve many times over. (reguarding...
Posted by xx--xx on May 26, 2009 in the Beowulf Group.
We use the full Raffel version of Beowulf. The Holt edition has the first part translated from...
Posted by slauritzen on Nov 4, 2008 in the Beowulf Group.- Think about what he would have been trained to do. That is really what schooling is anyway. ...
Posted by slauritzen on Nov 4, 2008 in the Beowulf Group. 
I used the Holt version of Literature and Language, Sixth Course, This book is the adopted text...
Posted by ms-mcgregor on Nov 4, 2008 in the Beowulf Group.- Since there were no public schools at the time, one could assume that he was tutored privately (...
Posted by ms-mcgregor on Nov 4, 2008 in the Beowulf Group. 
Yes, he should be consider a hero. Beowulf freed the kingdom from Grendel. Yes, he was arrogant...
Posted by aletendre on Nov 2, 2008 in the Beowulf Group.
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