British Literature Class Notes -- Week 2 (January 28)

Greetings!

We had a marvelous class this week.  I was especially pleased with the questions that the students brought to class.  As they read their assigned portions of Beowulf, they were to think of questions that would help us analyze this piece of ancient literature.  

Every class time I will take their questions and put them up on the board.  Many of the questions will have similar themes, so we will answer them in groups.  In our discussion this week, we talked about parallels to Biblical events and to current events.  I took a couple of photos of the white board full of our questions and related notes.  

Assignment for Next Week:

-- Read History of English Literature (III)

-- Read Beowulf (p. 30 - 57)

-- 3 Discussion Questions

Links for this Week:

Class Notes

Beowulf in Poetic form

Seamus Heaney's Beowulf audiobook, Part 1

Seamus Heaney's Beowulf audiobook, Part 2

Have a great week!

Mrs. Prichard