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- The hero connection: From Beowulf to Batman
- After reading Beowulf,students will identify Beowulf's heroic traits, generalize from these traits a list of typical traits for heroes, and then use these traits to compare Beowulf with contemporary heroes. As a culminating activity, students will define their concept of hero and then create a booklet of personal heroes from various areas.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
- By Hilda Caldwell.
- What good is Beowulf?
- High school students can follow the English language's evolution in Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales, and they can focus on words and their meaning as they compare translations.
- By Jo Barbara Taylor.
- English historical newsletter project
- This is the major research activity for my senior English students enrolled in MHS average English. It is a term-long project that coincides with their ongoing thematic portfolios in British literature. These portfolios with other class ingredients (including this research activity) culminate in a final showcase portfolio which is their final exam. Students pick (first come, first served) from a list of decades (i.e. 1790-99, 1800-1809, etc.) and become an English subject of that decade. In this role, they are to publish a documented newsletter reflecting a week (covering 10 areas) of their life in the decade. They must also generate an annotated bibliography to document their multiple types of sources (20). Students must report on 3 required items (popular writer's latest effort, a new invention from the decade and a new clothing fashion). The remaining 7 areas come from a supplied list: a concert they attended, a new medical discovery, etc.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
- By Joe Huddleston.
- A very short history of the English language
- Students apply their knowledge of world history to research the major influences on the language that has become the English we speak today. Students then develop a timeline of events in Britain and explain the contributions of the various invading groups to the English language.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Carla Shinn.
- The Great Chaucer Challenge: A cooperative learning game to review the Prologue
- This game employs the cooperative learning group format to review thoroughly Chaucer's Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and "The Pardoner's Tale" and "The Nun's Priest's Tale."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
- By Julie Shaw.
- Reading is for the boys (and girls)!
- This WebQuest for teachers looks at the difficult issue of how to get — and keep — boys interested in reading. It guides you through the research, then looks at text selection and pedagogy and helps you find specific strategies for narrowing the adolescent "literacy gap."
- Format: article
- By Kimberly Bowen.
Resources on the web
- An introduction to “Beowulf”: Language and poetics
- This lesson provides an introduction to the Old English language and the poetics of Beowulf. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
- Reading literature in translation: "Beowulf" as a case study
- This lesson introduces students to the verse form and poetic techniques used in various translations of Beowulf. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
- Monsters
- In this lesson, from ARTSEDGE, students use Beowulf to investigate views about “monsters” in society. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Music Education)
- Provided by: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
