Class Minutes

(Soo this is my first post...pretty excited.)

Class started off today with Kaitlyn informing us that she had met Mr. Lazarow's twin. He then went into a breif lesson about "Doppelganger" which means "dark half twin". Mr. Lazarow does not have a twin. Now that we covered that...

A couple questions were asked about the slides from Monday and how the Hero can learn something that results in helping the listener. The hero typically does his deed and becomes a teacher for himself because of Archetype, the older you get the more knowledge you contain along with wisom and maturity therefore being the guide.

To connect the power point with Beowulf, the class did a warm-up that contained the importance of a name. Names have meaning; they say something about a person. Also certain cultures contain multiple names, names that would be added on, for instance a confirmation name. Mr. Lazarow used his son's name as an example: Jacob Liam Lazarow. The "J" in Jacob represents the Jewish tradition in using letters, his rgeat uncle was named Joseph, and therefore the J came from Joseph. The "L" from Liam is Gaelic and is short for William. Finally, the last name comes from Lazarov, which is understood by the Russians. Not only full names, but also nicknames or reveiving a nickname, all supports the notion that names have meaning.

We received a packet containing a table of first and second elements with meanings next to each element. Putting that aside, we talked about "old English" and how it only refers to that which was written or spoken by Anglo-Saxon--> F U T H O R C, these were the only symbols used at the time and were knows as runic (not letters from the alphabet). Beowulf is the only example in old English that we will be reading, nothing more. We then used the packets to depict the names Hroth/Gar and Beo/Wulf. The meanings of the different elements came out to tell us that Hrothgar means fame and spear, which translated into famous spear. From this name we came to a conclusion that this individual was a male-warrior and had some sort of skill. Beowulf turned out to be bee-wolf, which told us that it was some sort of animal.

With these examples in mind, Mr. Laz gave us a task to complete tonight:
Assignment: Pre-step: index card (3x5) put real name on it

1. Write name of choice with list given for yourself (consider who you are and what you do)
2. Define your name by element using the packet. DO NOT write down name with all possible elements *pick one certain element with one definition
3. Give translation of the two elements together
4. On the other side of the index card: Mr. Lazarow (same format)
5. Take index car- seal envelope with your normal name on it. KEEP YOUR MADE UP NAME A SECRET. YOU WILL REGRET IT LATER IF YOU TELL!

A few questions came up about the background history of Beowulf:
-A.S stands for Anglo-Saxon
-# of manuscripts- 1 (almost destroyed as well)
-30,000 lines survived only 3,182 of them used

In the last minutes of class Mr. Lazarow brought up a term "KENNING" which is the ability to say certain words in different ways. Ex. sword: war-biter

Tanya