Class Notes 10/15

Mr. Lazarow started off class today by reminding people about the opportunity for the Larry Smith writing event, and then we moved on to Beowulf. We discussed the story of "The Fight at Finnsburg", which represents a full deviation from the story, but represents a Danish victory, similar to their victory over Grendel
The Fight at Finnsburg
-Hildeburh is the princess of the Danes
-Daughters are only good for being married off, specifically to other countries to form alliances
-Hildeburh is married to Finn the Frisian king
-Their son is the Lord of the Danes/Jutes
-The Danes are welcomed in the Frisian Mead hall
-The son travels with the Danes to the Frisians, and when tempers flare, fighting erupts and the son of Finn and Hildeburh (also the Danish lord) is killed
-The Danes now exact blood-vengance on the Frisians for killing their lord
-During winter, a truce is made and the Danes stay with the Frisians as brothers
-When spring nears, the Danes break the truce and slaughter the Frisians
-This deviation has nothing to do with Beowulf, but with the Danes, and how the story relates back to a time when the Danes were victorious and were not fighting, as they are now that Grendel is dead
-Chris Balch

OH LOOK! A POST!

Okay, well, Hildeburh is the daughter of Hoc. She's the sister of Hnaef, leader of the Danes. She is married to Finn of the Frisians. As for why the story is told, I'm not sure. What was the story, anyway? I know the stuff about Hildeburh (or I think I do, anyway), but I don't quite get the story.

WOOO BLOGGING

So no one is really blogging very much..... and since I just posted minutes I have a comprehension question about Beowulf. I won't ask it in class because of the spiel we got today about not using class time productively. So before Wealhtheow gives her praise to Beowulf there was a story told. I was just wondering about the significance of it? I mean the person referred to was the woman Hildeburh, so is it just told because Wealhtheow is about to speak or is there another big reason this is told at the celebration? I think i'm pretty much all clear on most of the questions on the sheet though. If anyone has anything they want to ask FEEL FREE!! :D
-Emily Wallace

Minutes for October 14th!

Mr. Lazarow opened up class today with three things. The first is that apparently the senior powder puff football team is not looking too good. This is because they do not have enough people. I am assuming you can sign up if you are interested? If not they may be getting crushed by the juniors who have a team and have already had practices.
The second item Mr. Lazarow went over was an opportunity with the writer, Larry Smith! He wrote the six-word memoirs book and is coming to our school and to host three sessions with students. If you are interested in going to a session, let Mr. Lazarow know and he'll try to get you in. But I do not know if this opportunity is still available... :(
Item three was regarding Beowulf. He explained that we were not using class time productively because we were asking questions about the comprehension of the poem. Mr. Lazarow said we should focus on harder issues in class and use the blog and hard work to answer others in our own time.
Other than that we started talking about Beowulf's battle against Grendel's mother today. We reached around the point where he finds the sword in the cave. However, then we got a bit distracted because a big portion of the class did not know that the Roman Empire preceded the Anglo-Saxon era.
-Emily Wallace!

CLASS NOTES 10/13/08

Today we began class by Mr. Lazarow reminding us that for extra credit we can read "Grendle" by John Gardner and writing a paper on it. This prompted many people to go ans sign out a book. Next, he went around and collected the college essays we were supposed to have done. Finally, he asked if anyone needed to ask any questions on the "Beowulf" text. There were a lot of questions thrown around and Mr. Lazarow ended up insulting Kaitlyn a few times. Thus concludes my daily notes for English 4 pd. 11

-Mike Rudolph

Class Minutes 10/10

He started class by reminding us that are college essays are due monday. If you want extra credit you can read the book Grendel and write a paper comparing it to Beowulf. We took a quiz on our old english names for extra credit on our Beowulf final test. Then we had a vote in class to see what laz's old english name would be. It is Ealdwude which means old wooden ship. Finally we concluded class by asking questions about Beowulf.

-Jimmy Rhoads

Class Minutes 10/8/08

Here are the class minutes for Wednesday October 8th. 2009:

• First we got our Toulmin Model quizzes back.
  
• we then discussed possible extra credit opportunities. Later in the class Mr. Lazarow offered extra credit for reading Jon Gardner's Grendel and comparing it with Beowulf
• The rest of class was spent discussing Beowulf. We talked about how the text was divided and the types of sub-storylines presented throughout the book. Some of these sub-plots, or kernals, or are just mentioned, explained partially, or discussed in detail.

-Andrew Burke