American Lit: We read Olaudah Equiano's "Interestng Narrative," began a small-group worksheet on addressing current injustices through the media, and a "Reader's Check" was assigned for homework, due Monday. Vocab Unit 1 test will be on Friday.
British Lit: Tests were handed back, and an exemplary essay was shown. Students watched Benjamin Bagby's performance of the opening lines of Beowulf and compared the oral poetic experience to the written word. Students then noted the various aspects of Anglo-Saxon poetry (tetrameter, caesura, kennings, etc.) in Rebsamen's translation of Beowulf. Finally, "The Epic Hero," a brief documentary on epic heroes, was begun.
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