Unit Day Six

Today we started out watching the Beowulf film unto which the students enjoyed seeing the Director's take on the story. The boys in the class found the battle scenes to be interesting, while the girls thought they were gory. After 30 minutes of watching the movie, I had the students circle their desks around mine so that we could have a discussion. From this discusion I found that my students really grasped the theme of the human condition. They found that although Beowulf held superhuman attributes, he still gave into temptation and created lies about how many monsters he killed in order to sound stronger. All in all, because my students seemed to be grasping these concepts from the film, I decided that my lesson planned for tomorrow would work effectively. Also, they were excited to see how Hollywood depicted Grendel's mother in watching the film tomorrow.