We are silent during explanations and raise our hands for questions
Our phone is in our "zakkie" in our bag
We don't eat, drink, or chew gum in class
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EngelsMiddelbare schoolvwoLeerjaar 4
In deze les zitten 17 slides, met interactieve quiz, tekstslides en 1 video.
Onderdelen in deze les
Basic rules
We do our work when we should
We are silent during explanations and raise our hands for questions
Our phone is in our "zakkie" in our bag
We don't eat, drink, or chew gum in class
Slide 1 - Tekstslide
learning goals
I understand the basic plot of Beowulf.
Slide 2 - Tekstslide
Literature & Culture
Slide 3 - Tekstslide
Slide 4 - Tekstslide
Timeline
55 BC - 450 AD: Great Britain under Roman rule
after 450 AD: Celts attack, Romans withdraw
--> migration of the peoples --> Anglo-Saxon settlers --> 7th century turn to Christianity --> increase Latin & Old English literature --> 793 Vikings attack --> Viking settlers --> 8th - 11th century wars for the crown --> 1066 end of Anglo-Saxon era; beginning of Norman period
Slide 5 - Tekstslide
Slide 6 - Tekstslide
OLD ENGLISH
Medieval times
tradition: told by scops
The oldest
composed +/- 1200 years ago(?)
changed dialects, almost up in smoke, lines were lost
lone survivor; remarkable then and now.
Slide 7 - Tekstslide
Epic Poetry
Long narrative poem
Written in an elevated style
Celebrates deed of a legendary hero or God
External Conflict, when a character struggles against some outside force person nature society or fate.
The name of the mead hall that is being terrorised by the monster
The third monster that Beowulf has to fight
Heorot
Beowulf
Grendel
Grendel's mother
Hrothgar
A nameless dragon
Slide 11 - Sleepvraag
Read page 8 & 9 in Alquin
Answer questions 1 & 2 from page 10
Slide 12 - Tekstslide
question 1
Beowulf is set in a period when Christianity had yet to become established all across Western Europe.
Nevertheless, there are many references to God in the poem.
Can you suggest why this might be?
Slide 13 - Tekstslide
answer question 1
At this time, monks and others within the church were almost the only people who When the poem was written, the Anglo-Saxons had been Christians for about a hundred years. could read and write. What they wrote was naturally dominated by Christian thinking. Whoever wrote down or copied Beowulf adapted it by removing heathen elements and/or adding more contemporary elements.
Slide 14 - Tekstslide
question 2
At the start of the first quoted passage. Grendel is introduced as a bloodthirsty monster.
Give a number of examples from which his nature is apparent.
Slide 15 - Tekstslide
answer question 2
Grendel is described as greedy, the curse of the human race, spurned, etc. etc.
In addition, a lot of attention is paid to his rage and the demonic pleasure he takes in killing people.
- ‘his rage boiled over, he ripped open / the mouth of the building, maddening for blood’
- ‘and his glee was demonic’
- ‘he would rip life from limb and devour them / feed on their flesh’
Slide 16 - Tekstslide
Holmwoods
Go to Somtoday--> leermiddelen --> English Essentials --> start learning
Every week: do 2 reading exercises and 2 listening exercises
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