- Discussion: Upcoming scholarships. You can visit the WEHS Career Center website for links to the scholarships they showcase.
- Syllabus review / Q&A
- Beowulf books returned
- Grading rubric for summer reading notes.
- Discussion of the purpose of annotation
- HW due Tues. 9/1/15: Read the handout on Harvard's "Interrogating Texts" style of annotation which we will be using. We will discuss on Tues.
- We will work with Beowulf in four sections, so mark them off in your text:#1: p. 3-71, lines 1 – 1061#2: p. 71 – 131, lines 1062 – 1904#3: p. 131 – 171, lines 1905 – 2541#4: p. 173 – 213, lines 2542 - 3182
- HW due Tues. 9/1/15: Review section 1 of Beowulf. Focus on adding any annotations you might have missed the first time around and also on the characterization of Grendel, Hrothgar, and Beowulf. What are some details that help us understand these characters? What techniques did the author use to make these characters vivid?
