What’s the difference?

1. What’s the difference? • As thou art transcribing your moniker upon the easel, levitate the appendage with which you calcitrate a spheroid of the gaming sort. • Lift the leg that you kick a soccer ball with. Now write your name on the board.

2. How to Survive Beowulf: Paraphrasing

3. Why Paraphrase? • Shows understanding • Uses your own words, but keeps the author’s ideas • Makes sense of the poem

4. Paraphrase this: A powerful monster, living down In the darkness, growled in pain, impatient As day after day the music rang Loud in that hall, the harp’s rejoicing Call and the poet’s clear songs, sung Of the ancient beginnings of us all, recalling The Almighty making the earth, shaping These beautiful plains marked off by oceans, Then proudly setting the sun and moon To glow across the land and light it; The corners of the earth were made lovely with trees And leaves, made quick with life, with each Of the nations who now move on its face. And then As now warriors sang of their pleasure. WHAT?!?

5. How will this be easier? • Create a chart with 3 columns marked Nouns, Verbs and Phrases • Looks for words that represent people, places and things that you recognize • Record them in order in a column marked Nouns • Read them again and find out what actions or verbs go with these nouns • Write any words or phrases that are related to each group of nouns and verbs.

6. Paraphrase this: A powerful monster, living down In the darkness, growled in pain, impatient As day after day the music rang Loud in that hall, the harp’s rejoicing Call and the poet’s clear songs, sung Of the ancient beginnings of us all, recalling The Almighty making the earth, shaping These beautiful plains marked off by oceans, Then proudly setting the sun and moon To glow across the land and light it; The corners of the earth were made lovely with trees And leaves, made quick with life, with each Of the nations who now move on its face. And then As now warriors sang of their pleasure.

7. Paraphrase this: A powerful monster, living down In the darkness, growled in pain, impatient As day after day the music rang Loud in that hall, the harp’s rejoicing Call and the poet’s clear songs, sung Of the ancient beginnings of us all, recalling The Almighty making the earth, shaping These beautiful plains marked off by oceans, Then proudly setting the sun and moon To glow across the land and light it; The corners of the earth were made lovely with trees And leaves, made quick with life, with each Of the nations who now move on its face. And then As now warriors sang of their pleasure.

8. Paraphrase this: A powerful monster, living down In the darkness, growled in pain, impatient As day after day the music rang Loud in that hall, the harp’s rejoicing Call and the poet’s clear songs, sung Of the ancient beginnings of us all, recalling The Almighty making the earth, shaping These beautiful plains marked off by oceans, Then proudly setting the sun and moon To glow across the land and light it; The corners of the earth were made lovely with trees And leaves, made quick with life, with each Of the nations who now move on its face. And then As now warriors sang of their pleasure.

9. Paraphrase this: A powerful monster, living down In the darkness, growled in pain, impatient As day after day the music rang Loudin that hall, the harp’s rejoicing Call and the poet’s clear songs, sung Of the ancient beginnings of us all, recalling The Almighty making the earth, shaping These beautiful plains marked off by oceans, Then proudly setting the sun and moon To glow across the land and light it; The corners of the earth were made lovely with trees And leaves, made quick with life, with each Of the nations who now move on its face. And then As now warriors sang of their pleasure.

10. Chart Your Words Compare the original text to your chart to put the text in your own words. It might look something like this: There was a monster underground who was upset about the loud music playing in the hall. People told stories of the beginning of life when God created the oceans, the sun, the moon and people. We still celebrate it the way the warriors did.

11. Paraphrase this: So Hrothgar’s men lived happy in his hall Till the monster stirred, that demon, that fiend, Grendel, who haunted the moors, the wild Marshes, and made his home in a hell Not hell but earth. He was spawned in that slime, Conceived by a pair of those monsters born Of Cain, murderous creatures banished By God, punished forever for the crime Of Abel’s death. The Almighty drove Those demons out, and their exile was bitter. Shut away from men; they split Into a thousand forms of evil- spirits And fiends, goblins, monsters, giants, A brood forever opposing the Lord’s Will, and again and again defeated.

12. Might look like this: Hrothgar’s men lived happily in their hall until Grendel came. He lived in a hell on earth and was born from the evilest of monsters. God punished these creatures and will always defeat them.

13. Your task: • Each group will be assigned a section of the poem. READ it first. • WORKING TOGETHER, create a chart for your section. • Paraphrase your section and post it on your paper. • You will be sharing with the class. • One reader, two writers (chart, paraphrase), one presenter