Tuesday, September 8, 2009

SAT dates + iCal

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/calenfees.html

9-8-09 HW Q's from Beowulf Part I Notes

Please post any questions that you have from the reading Pp. 21-28 on your blog.
Your post may include sidebar questions that you were unable to answer or are unsure about.
You can also include any other questions/misunderstanding that may be in your notes.

Beowulf Part I Vocab.

Please post the five unknown/difficult vocabulary words that you identified from Beowulf Part I.
Include the page number and line number.

Authentic Sentence Structure/Grammar Errors

Please reply with one sentence from another student's essay that seems to contain errors. You don't have to be able to identify the errors or be able to fix them, although you can try if you like.
*Also please include the sentence before and after the sentence that contains errors. Make the sentence with errors bold.

I want to follow your blogs

Please copy and paste the URL (address) of your blog into a comment for this post.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Heroes/Archetypes

Pick a hero from your brainstorm list to analyze.

What culture does your hero represent?

What attributes does your hero possess that make him a hero?

The hero's attributes will tell you a lot about the values of the hero's culture and vice versa.
Tap prior knowledge/predict (Holt Pp. 1-17).
What attributes do you think the Anglo Saxons value?