Tuesday Feb 2, 2009

Agenda:
Beowulf
-> The Hero's journey
-> Begin part 19-26
HW:
Vocab ex. 3
Finish study questions
Finish project

We started with coping doing the agenda (as usual) then sister Salma started to explain a up coming project paper that we have to do on Heroes, we have to pick a culture and write about
a famous hero in that culture. Them sister Salma had some notes on the projector about heroes.
It was a basic definition of heroes or charteristics that all hero's have.
some things that they have is:
1. An unusual birth and childhood
2. They have some call to adventure
3. They have an amulet
4. They have to cross some kind of thershhold
5. They are faced with tests/ challenges
6.they have some kind of Partner/helper in their quest
7. Climax/final battle
8. The flight ( when they escape from battle or just leave )
9. Returns to everyday world
10. Able to offer blessings

After this we started on in class commentaries where we chose 15-40 lines
to comment on.
the end.