* Check J9
* Look up words 1-10 for vocabulary
* M.C. 2009 Section 1
HW: J10 College RD #2
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Showing posts with label Week 5. Show all posts
Tuesday, 9/13: Elements
* Leithart's Germanic Background
* Finish basic Beowulf thoughts
* The Elements of Style Part V, "An Approach to Style." This section is a newer section that is not in the free, onlined edition; therefore, you will find it on the Focus course under the Terms, Vocabulary, Rhetoric, Grammar, and Binder section. It's the last file in that section.
* J8: List the three most helpful and the three least helpful pieces of advice from this section. Briefly explain what makes each helpful or unhelpful.
HW: J8
* Finish basic Beowulf thoughts
* The Elements of Style Part V, "An Approach to Style." This section is a newer section that is not in the free, onlined edition; therefore, you will find it on the Focus course under the Terms, Vocabulary, Rhetoric, Grammar, and Binder section. It's the last file in that section.
* J8: List the three most helpful and the three least helpful pieces of advice from this section. Briefly explain what makes each helpful or unhelpful.
HW: J8
Beastly News
Two interesting articles here: One on 20 top colleges that like early decision, another questioning the enterprise.
Monday, 9/12: Beowulf
.5 We may say there are two basic kinds of writing, prose and verse.
1. Old English Verse
* Alliterated, not rhymed
* Could have any number of syllables but only four stressed per line (not a descendent of the Greek, counted meter poetry)
* Each line was called a stich (pronounced STIK) and had four stressed syllables.
* Each half line was a hemistich (HEM e stik) and had two stressed syllables. There was a natural pause in the middle of each line.
* Any pause in verse is called a caesura.
* This verse style lost place to metrical verse around the time of Shakespeare, but it remains a poet's prerogative to employ.
* It was not divided into stanzas
Beowulf is bee-wolf, bee-hunter; consider.
Heorot is hart; consider.
Unfearth is without peace; consider.
How is Grendel like Cain?
Rather sour conclusion? Consider.
2. Begin reading Dr. Peter Leithart's post on Beowulf's Germanic background.
HW: J7 Finish reading Dr. Leithart's post. Answer these questions: According to Dr. Leithart, what challenges did Christian missionaries face before the Germanic tribes converted? What challenges after?
1. Old English Verse
* Alliterated, not rhymed
* Could have any number of syllables but only four stressed per line (not a descendent of the Greek, counted meter poetry)
* Each line was called a stich (pronounced STIK) and had four stressed syllables.
* Each half line was a hemistich (HEM e stik) and had two stressed syllables. There was a natural pause in the middle of each line.
* Any pause in verse is called a caesura.
* This verse style lost place to metrical verse around the time of Shakespeare, but it remains a poet's prerogative to employ.
* It was not divided into stanzas
Beowulf is bee-wolf, bee-hunter; consider.
Heorot is hart; consider.
Unfearth is without peace; consider.
How is Grendel like Cain?
Rather sour conclusion? Consider.
2. Begin reading Dr. Peter Leithart's post on Beowulf's Germanic background.
HW: J7 Finish reading Dr. Leithart's post. Answer these questions: According to Dr. Leithart, what challenges did Christian missionaries face before the Germanic tribes converted? What challenges after?
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