Senior Lesson Plans

Writing Research and Oral Skills Each Thursday and Friday, students will spend time working on selected sections of the Senior-Graduation Project/Product. In addition, students will complete weekly-assigned essays.

Poetry Analysis and Oral Presentations Seniors may opt to participate in Poetry Out Loud. Whether they participate in Poetry Out Loud or not, they are still required to memorize two selected poems and complete a TPCASTT analysis of each poem in his or her Junior Interactive Notebook.

Reading Part 1 – Senior Interactive Notebook Lessons Unit 1 – From Legend to History: The Old English and Medieval Periods (A.D. 449 – 1485) Anglo-Saxons had a strong sense of community. Their water was polluted; therefore, they drink mead within the mead hall. The fellowship and community of the mead-hall was important to a man. All that seemed good and that gave a man his identity was tied up with home and community. Within each poem Judea- Christian element are present, and one sees a transition from the Pagan world toward Christian elements.

Build Skills: Read and discuss the following Anglo-Saxon-elegiac poems READ and DISCUSS “The Seafarer” * “The Wanderer” – Although he (the seafarer or the wanderer) is drawn to life at sea, the speaker still sees this kind of life as a form of exile. “The Seafarer”, translated by Burton Raffel * “The Wanderer”, translated Preview, page 2

* “The Wife’s Lament”- The woman’s husband tells her to move her home, even though she has few loved ones there. “The Wife’s Lament”, translated by Ann Stanford Preview, 3

Apply the Skills, page 4

Build Skills: from Beowulf – Translated by Burton Raffel – An Epic Poem

The Anglo Saxons liked stories about people who were “larger than life”. They like to believe that evil will always be defeated, and the Anglo Saxons honored doing good deeds over bad behavior.

INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES Graphic Organizer, page 5 The Wrath of Grendel * The Monsters’ Lair * The Battle with Grendel’s Mother * The Last Battle * The Spoils * The Farewell with the Preview and Note-taking Guide, page 6

Setting: Kingdom of the Danes Problem: Grendel has been killing Hrothgar’s men Goal: To get rid of Grendel The Coming of Beowulf * the Battle with Grendel with the Preview and Activate Prior Knowledge Literary Analysis along with a Reading Strategy, page 7 The Selection with a Literary Analysis and Stop and Reflect, page 8 Apply the Skills, page 15

Build Skills: from A History of the English Church and People from The Anglo- Saxon Chronicle, page 16 Read and Discuss from A History of the English Church and People Bede Preview – Translated by Lee Sherley-Price, page 17 Read and discuss from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Preview – Translated by Anne Savage, 18 Apply Skills, page 19

Reading Informational Materials Maps, page 20

Build Skills: The Prologue from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, page 25 Preview, page 26; Selection, page 27; Apply the Skills, page 39 Build Skills: The Pardoner’s Tale from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, page 40 Preview, page 41; Apply the Skills, page 42 Build Skills: The Wife of Bath’s Tale from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, page 43 Preview and Apply Skill, pages 41 - 42 Build Skills: from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from Morte d’ Arthur, page 46 Read and Discuss: from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by Marie Borroff Preview, page 47 Read and Discuss: from Morte d’ Arthur Preview, page 48 Selection, page 49 Apply the Skills, page 57 Build Skills: Letters of Margaret Paston and the Anglo Saxon Ballads: Twa Corbies * Lord Randall * Get Up and Bar the Door * Barbara Allan, page 58 Letters of Margaret Paston by Margaret Paston Preview, page 59 Read and Discuss the Anglo Saxon Ballads: Twa Corbies * Lord Randall * Get Up and Bar the Door * Barbara Allan Preview, page 60 Apply Skills, page 61 This concludes Unit 1 from Legend to History: The Old English and Medieval Periods (A.D. 449 -1485)