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March 20, 2019 Freshman Lit Seminar Mr. Cabat

March 20, 2019 Freshman Lit Seminar Mr. Cabat. Aim: “…the wanderer’s beat, cut off from kind… “The Seafarer” and the English Poetic Tradition. SAT Question of the Day. More than  10,000 earthen mounds, A built by  prehistoric Native Americans B

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March 20, 2019 Freshman Lit Seminar Mr. Cabat

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  1. March 20, 2019Freshman Lit SeminarMr. Cabat Aim: “…the wanderer’s beat, cut off from kind… “The Seafarer” and the English Poetic Tradition

  2. SAT Question of the Day • More than 10,000 earthen mounds, A built by prehistoric Native Americans B for ceremonial purposes, they have found C D in Minnesota. No error E

  3. ***SCHEDULE NOTES*** • 3/21 – Beowulf, Lines 1-143 • 3/22 – Beowulf, Lines 144-300 • 3/25 – Eschatology Essays Due

  4. The Pain of Exile • What would it mean to you if you were banished from your home, unable to ever see the places or people you love again? • This is Dante, who we will be meeting in a couple of weeks. He is shown in exile in the town of Ravenna, never to see his beloved Florence again. • There is no world without Verona walls, But purgatory, torture, hell itself. Hence-banished is banish'd from the world, And world's exile is death Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  5. Circle Up, FroHum! • As a class, we will read one of the earliest poems ever written in English, “The Seafarer.” It was written around the same time as Beowulf, and possibly by the same poet.

  6. Group Activity • Groups will be divided as follows: • Group 1: Lines 1-22 • Group 2: Lines 23-38 • Group 3: Lines 39-63 • Group 4: Lines 64-80 • Group 5: Lines 81-102 • Group 6: Lines 103-124

  7. What You Should Be Looking For • Literary elements • The narrator’s thoughts about the pain of exile • What occupies the narrator’s time; what does he notice? • Where, if any place, does the narrator find hope?

  8. Homework Read lines 1-143 of Beowulf and address the EQ on the turnitin discussion board.

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