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01 October 2026

B - The one about burials and embedding quotes.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How does the blending of pagan and Christian burial rites reflect the Anglo-Saxon struggle between achieving earthly immortality (the love of glory) and spiritual salvation (the inevitability of death)?

We read together "The Burning of Beowulf's Body," and discussed the Anglo-Saxon tension between glory and judgement. Learners identified pagan and Christian elements from the excerpt and chatted to the their partners about this dual lens and what that lens might suggest about what is happening in this time period.

We reviewed how to embed/integrate quotes into the body of sentences and paragraphs. Learners used the rest of the period to finish working on their essays.

DUE 6 October - Anglo-Saxon Ideals Essay

READ:
  • Bede, page 32
  • excerpt from Bede's A History of the English Church and People, pages 33-34
  • "The Seafarer" pages 35-38
  • The Old English Period, pages 41-42
  • The Medieval Period, pages 43-54
NEXT CLASS: Elegiac Epic
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