Homework 9/28/06
Answer the questions in your textbook found at the end of Beowulf.Study for vocabulary.
Homework 9/27/06
Read the section entitled, "The Last Battle," in Beowulf.
Homework 9/25/06
Complete essays on Anglo-Saxon poetry.
Homework 9/21/06
Revise introductions to essay. Prepare for tomorrow's vocabulary quiz.
Homework 9/20/06
Continue studying for the vocabulary quiz on Friday.
Compose a draft of the introduction to your essay (which will be due Monday or Tuesday of next week.) As discussed in class, your essay must address how the theme of exile is expressed in Anglo-Saxon poetry. Specifically, you need to include an analysis of the three elegies we read in class.
Homework 9/19/06
For each of the words in Lesson 1 of your vocabulary book, write the part of speech, definition, and an original sentence that uses the new word properly. (This is to be done on looseleaf.)Quiz Friday.
Homework 9/18/06
Create 10 kennings, describing some of what/who you see at ESA.
Homework 9/15/06
Answer the questions on pg. 26 of your text for, "The Wife's Lament." Questions are to be done in complete sentences in your notebook.
Homework 9/14/06
Prepare for an open book quiz (on the three Anglo-Saxon selections) that will be given in class tomorrow.
Homework 9/13/06
Read The Wife's Lament for class tomorrow. The following will provide the required text in case you have forgotten your textbook. http://www.brindin.com/porodwi1.htm
Homework 9/11/06
Read The Seafarer and be prepared to discuss this selection in class.Syllabi were due this past Monday. Be sure to bring them in if you have not already done so.
Homework 9/8/06
Ladies, kindly work on the following for Monday:
* Return signed syllabus
* Complete summer reading assignment neatly and completely
* Contact partner over weekend and try to answer all five Anglo-Saxon riddles.
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Welcome, Ladies, to British Literature. I'm looking forward to meeting you on Thursday.