British Literature Class Notes -- Week 3 (February 4)

Greetings!

We had another wonderful class this week.  The class has really risen to the occasion when it comes to class discussions.  

We finished with Beowulf this week; it didn't take very long for us to work through this book, Their discussion questions were insightful -- they included thoughts about symbolism, various themes, and character development.  On the blog, I've inserted a picture of the board to give parents an idea of the quality of the questions that the students brought up.  Having reached the end of the book, we were able to not only analyze the section read for this week but the book as a whole.

Now that we're finished with some of the earliest written work of the tome of British literature, we now move forward a few centuries to the end of the 16th century when Shakespeare wrote Much Ado About Nothing.  The class seemed to be familiar with this play, so we will be able to go a little deeper in our discussions.  This is a fairly light-hearted play and not written in verse as many of Shakespeare's other plays were.

Assignments for Next Week:

-- Read Acts I, II, and III

-- Write 3 Discussion Questions

Links for This Week

Class Notes

Characters in Much Ado

Context in Much Ado About Nothing

Themes in Much Ado About Nothing

Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Prichard