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Day 5

Grendel Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

  1. 1

    Final Project

    Kind of Activity:

    Mixed Media

    Objective:

    Allow students to interpret the text's themes both analytically and creatively.

    Common Core Standards:

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1

    Structure:

    Now that Grendel has met his match in Beowulf, what does it all mean? Does this book have a lesson or moral? Does it illustrate a point about philosophy, or about the meaning of life? And how does it relate to its famous source material?

    Students should develop a final project tackling one of the book's central themes. These include:

    - Philosophy

    - Religion

    - Nihilism

    - Pursuit of Knowledge/Truth

    - Politics

    - Violence

    Any other theme for which...

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