Block the Dragons!

A Frog Having Just Swallowed a Bat

* Open

• Turn in your CWP to the silver tray, please. 
• Memorization quiz (also turn in to the silver tray).  Once you finish please copy the terms below:

Please copy the following terms into your journals:

• Thane: (in Anglo-Saxon England) a man who held land granted by the king or by a military nobleman, ranking between an ordinary freeman and a hereditary noble.
• Scop: an Old English poet, the Anglo-Saxon counterpart of the Old Norse skald.
• Caesura (plural: caesurae): A pause separating phrases within lines of poetry. The term caesura comes from the Latin "a cutting" or "a slicing." Some editors will indicate a caesura by inserting a slash (/) in the middle of a poetic line. Others insert extra space in this location. Others do not indicate the caesura typographically at all (Dr. Wheeler).

* More Heaney together:

•  Beowulf's Background; read (at least) part 1, "The Poem."

* Listen and read

• Listen to Beowulf from line 2164ish (25:00 min. in here)
• Note that it skips, so you'll have to pause when it does, read a bit, then play again. 
• If that's too irritating, then don't bother with the audio.  

HW: Finish reading Beowulf; next week we will be writing our journal, creating a notecard, and reading other (Tolkien and Leithart) notes.  So move into any of those assignments if you have finished reading the poem.