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Beowulf: Songs of Ancient Heroes Lesson PlanBeowulf: Songs of Ancient Heroes Lesson Plan
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Beowulf: Songs of Ancient Heroes

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Introduce your class to epic heroes with these activities for Beowulf. After watching a video clip, taking notes on heroes, and tracking characteristics of heroism throughout Beowulf, class members retell an episode of Beowulf using a PowerPoint presentation and write a compare and contrast essay. This has some solid ideas; however, many of the resource links do not work and the procedures and activities read more like an outline.

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alliteration, literary devices, allusions, responding to literature, literature, beowulf, old english epics, context clues, compare and contrast, literary analysis, old english, symbolism, archetypes

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alliteration, allusion, archetypes, beowulf, compare and contrast, context clues, literary analysis, literary response, old english, symbolism, epic hero, anglo-saxon era, interpret poetry, english language arts
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