V5 Play's the Thing - Beowulf

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 5

remember? 

• Beowulf: 
• example of an epic poem
  
• charcteristically Germanic in content and outlook:
•       courage in battle
•       obedience to the king and other (war) leaders
  
•       belief in magic and in dangerous demons
  
• probably composed in 8th century (in England)
  
• original story much older (Scandinavia)
  
• earliest manuscript: c. 1000 (by anonymous monk)
  

Today

1. in pairs: discuss the questions on "Arrival of Beaker folk"...

2. had a look at Google Classroom - the material shared with you?

3. work on the assignments on Beowulf (WASP Reporter)

Questions text DNA studies

5 min: In pairs: discuss your questions on "Arrival of Beaker folk"...

Watch and answer

Watch bit.ly/wr-beowulf and do assign. 70A (WASP)

Language organiser I

Matching exercise 71 A 

Language organiser II

Matching exercise 71 C

Listen

Listen to the text https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xwAjdyrErGpk54IYaFF9q7wk0yTDL9CS and answer the questions of assign. 72

Read text

Read the text "Beowulf is Back" and do ex. 73 (WASP)

literary devices

Read 74A and then find examples in the excerpt on p. 5 of the PtT

homework:

- Finish the (WASP) assignments

- Watch Michael Wood's In Search of Beowulf

- Bring PtT, your novel, HCE Exam Idiom and WASP