WEEK 2

GOOD MORNING!


Here's your work for week 2:


1. FRONTIER VOCAB...

Anyway, here's the assignment again in case you need reminding:

Frontier words are terms we recognize but don’t know well enough to use in our own language. These are the easiest words to add to our vocabularies.

For this response do each of these steps...

a. Choose THREE frontier words from your own INDEPENDENT reading and write out the context (the sentence or 10 words surrounding the frontier word in your book).

b. Provide your own definition of the word (guess!) based on the context.

c. Provide the actual dictionary definition.

d. Write an original sentence of 8+ words using the frontier vocab term. Mimicking the context sentence is a good way to make sure you're using the word correctly.

2. Read Bede / Caedmon / Seafarer; do questions 5,6,7 on p.37 and questions 1-6 on p.40


3. Beowulf essay. We'll start the essay-writing portion of Brit Lit with a simple piece of literary analysis: a character study...

In a well-written, thoroughly supported, and carefully proofed essay, show how the character of Beowulf meets the criteria of a national epic hero. To do this you will need to identify those character traits admired by the Anglo Saxons (you already started this with item #4 from last week). You will then need to use evidence from the text and show that Beowulf embodies these traits. Fortunately for you, the Anglo Saxons (or maybe the limited amount of Anglo-Saxon literature that we have available to us) were pretty clear about what they wanted in a hero. It shouldn't be hard.

This is a good place to start because it will be a fairly straight-forward essay to organize, and you can practice again the basic essay skills of incorporating quoted  text, transitions, introductions and conclusions, etc. (Those are good hints for what to include in your draft.)

800 words min.

Be sure to label everything by assignment and date. 

4. Little Black Grammar Book work...

In your own words teach me about these word pairs and how to use them correctly. And I'll need to see some original examples...

a. all ready / already

b. all together / altogether

c. all right / alright

d. __and I / __ and me

DUE FRIDAY AT MIDNIGHT. 


Have a wonderful week!