ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: What does the existence of pagan and Christian values tell us about the Anglo-Saxons? What is the value of poetry to remembering?
Learners offered their summaries and important lines from "The Burning of Beowulf's Body."
We looked together at the excerpt from Bede's The History of the English Church and Its People.
We discussed the oral language v. Bede's writing, and I suggested that features of oral language aid in memory. We listened to:
Learners worked in small groups to write their own sea chanties. They used a section of Beowulf for "the story."
READ: "The Seafarer"
NEXT CLASS: sea chanties, heroic epic v. elegiac epic
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