September,+2013

SEPTEMBER CLASS NOTES:

Class Notes 9/10 Grade 7—all sections

Things We Noticed About the Text:

ü Norse mythology – Anglo Saxon text

ü Odd names – tied to Anglo Saxon language

ü Funeral rites among Anglo-Saxons -- boat sent to sea afire!
ü Beowulf tries to rescue a kingdom from a monster (Grendel)

ü Grendel looks like an ogre

ü White horse—symbol (good)

ü King & kingdom involved

ü Hrothgar=King

ü Gore—bones/blood, etc.

ü Bats & evil

ü Good v. Evil a theme

Literature Structure: things we know about literature structure

ü Characters—protagonist vs. antagonist ü exposition (background info.); ü Plot: background/rising action/conflict/climax/falling action/resolution or denouement ü Setting: place & time ü Point of view: often first (“I”) or third person (him/her/they)

Figurative :

ü Similes ü Metaphor ü Irony ü symbolism

Sounds of the Language: ü alliteration ü onomatopoeia

Cain and Able- Bible sons of Adam and Eve Cain- Farmer Able- Shepard God likes Ables offering better- makes cain very jealous and angry Cain kills Able because he was so mad the lord asks where able is and cain responds lies God knows he murdered able and cursed Cain to be an outcast. he also marked Cain, so everyone who saw the mark knew they could not hurt him Grendal's father is cain, and his mother is a big ugly serpent