Beowulf Vocabular Homework Due Tuesday, September 21

Imagine you’re a scop…

Beowulf Writing

(Homework Practice for the Beowulf Test)

Directions: Become a scop; write part of an epic (10+ sentences) in which…

• you create (and name) a conflict between a monster that represents a human vice (Grendel=violence, Grendel’s mother=revenge, the Dragon=greed, your monster=???) and a hero with Anglo-Saxon values,

(write three characteristics of an Anglo-Saxon hero on the lines below)

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• you incorporate three characters from Beowulf (put their names in bold or underline them),

• you create five kennings (put the kennings in bold or underline them),

• you write at least one sentence with alliteration (put the alliterating letters in bold or underline them, like this: “follow these five directions faithfully” or “follow these five directions faithfully”),

• you use the words affliction, mail, mead, sentinel, sinew, and solace (put the vocabulary in bold or underline them).

On Thursday, I will read these brief epics in Tutu Ohsevvin, our (mead-free) Word Hall. (Authors will be anonymous just like the author of Beowulf.) We will vote for the one that is Most Anglo-Saxon and for the one that is Most Entertaining. The winners will receive five points on the vocabulary quiz.