Beowulf Essay Assignment

1. Beowulf Essay Assignment Academic English 12

4. Beowulf Essay Assignment Outline Form • The opening should be a general statement about the work. The title should be included and a thesis (use part of the prompt to help with this) • The body • State each main point so that it clearly relates to the focus of the paper • Support each main point with specific details (lines ) • Explain how each of these specific details helps prove your point • The closing should tie all of the important points together and make a final statement about the main focus of your analysis

5. Beowulf Essay Assignment Outline Form • Introduction • Title • Author • Thesis • Body (Each paragraph): Use information from your notes • 1st Main point • Quote from Beowulf • Support from article • Transition • 2nd Main point • (repeat as above) • 3rd Main point • 4th Main point • 5th Main point • Conclusion • Tie all important points together • Draw own conclusions

6. In-text Citing of Anthology • MLA Parenthetical Reference • A parenthetical reference to this Anthology/Collection might look like this • “Then he addressed each dear companion” (Beowulf 43; pt. 2, sec.14, line 666).

7. In-text Citing of Anthology • Two Types of In-Text Citations (Parenthetical Notations) • When the author’s name appears in a signal phrase • In Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, Walter says, “Rich people don’t have to be flashy” (1538). *In this example, the author appears in the “lead-in,” so the author’s last name doesn’t appear in the citation.

8. In-text Citing of Anthology • No author’s name appears or there is no signal phrase • Walter says, “Rich people don’t have to be flashy” (Hansberry 1538). ** When possible, use a signal phrase as the lead-in to the sentence that includes the information to be cited.

9. Citing Lines from Beowulf • The mood was somber as “. . . Twelve warriors rode around the tomb,/. . . all of them distraught, chanting in dirges” (Beowulf48; pt. 2, sec. 17, lines 829-31). • If you have a long quotation of lines (4 or more), indent the lines • Beowulf addresses his warriors, . . . “Iwould rather not use a weaponif I knew another way to grapple with the dragon and make good my boast as I did against Grendel in days gone by” (43; pt. 2, sec. 14, lines 669 – 671).

10. ELLIPSIS POINTS • When you omit words at the end of a sentence with a quoted passage, keep the sentence’s end punctuation and follow it with the points of ellipsis. • “That building was an early-Renaissance confection of towers and turrets. . . . I remember that next to the chateau was the town hall, a handsome, square Second Empire structure.”

11. ELLIPSIS POINTS • Use ellipsis points (. . . ) to mark omissions from quoted material • When you omit words from the middle of a sentence, use three spaced points. • “The room overlooking the square had . . . A view of the chateau.” • When you omit words from the beginning, keep the previous sentence’s end punctuation and follow it with points of ellipsis. • “That building was an early-Renaissance confection of towers and turrets, partly encircled by the old city walls. . . . Next to the chateau was the town hall, a handsome, square Second Empire structure.”

12. ELLIPSIS POINTS • When you omit one or more complete sentences from within a quoted passage, keep the previous sentence’s end punctuation and follow it with points of ellipsis.

13. When the fearsome Vikings began raiding England at the end of the eighth century, the church added a new prayer: “God, deliver us from the fury of the Northmen” (Beowulf 21; pt.1, sec. 5, line 1).Were these Scandinavian warriors—descended from the peoples of Beowulf—really such berserk destroyers? The fiercest ones were, indicated by the word berserk itself: In Old Norse, a berserkr was a “frenzied Norse warrior” (22; line 30), so wild and fearless even his comrades kept clear.