Unit Day Five

Because today the students had their Vocabulary Week Four Quiz, we did not have that much time for Beowulf. Though, in the time we did have, I made sure to have an interesting activity for the students. The activity I created was the Beowulf Boast. Because Beowulf and the other characters of the text are often times boasting about their great achievements, I felt as though my students should create boasts similar to Beowulf's about their own achievements. Considering they are seniors and soon to be applying to colleges, this gives them an opportunity to really talk about themselves. Upon completing this activity in class, many of the students created boasts very similar to the form of the Beowulf text, while also having interesting things to say about themselves. As a teacher, I found it fun to listen to the boasts they created in order to get to know them better. Overall, my students seemed to get the assignment and definitely enjoyed talking about themselves for the few minutes of their Beowulf Boast.

On another note, after grading the Vocabulary Quizzes, I found that none of my students received 100 percent on the test. This fact is perfectly fine, but it slightly disappointed me. Though there were no perfect quizzes, the majority only missed one or two, which made me realize that my students really grasped the vocabulary review from the previous day. Overall, today's lesson was executed smoothly and caught the attention of my students by relating to them.