Description

Worried your students won’t enjoy Beowulf? Or concerned about fitting it into your schedule? This Beowulf mini unit brings the epic to life in an engaging, condensed format. Featuring the 3-part Myths and Legends podcast, excerpts from Seamus Heaney’s translation, and thematic writing prompts, this unit offers a rich, multimodal experience. Explore the greatness of Beowulf with dynamic activities and comprehensive resources that will captivate your students.

Students will love it because it’s fast-paced, fun, and a fantastic way to look at hero culture. You will love it because it’s a quick way to cover this epic tale but is still high on rigor!

✅ Included:

• 5-day unit breakdown of suggested way to teach this mini unit
• PP presentation on Epic Heroes vs Heroes utilizing Batman and Superman
• PP presentation on thematic topics vs theme statements to help your students begin writing a thematic analysis of Beowulf
• 14 PDF handouts that breakdown Beowulf into three parts. Each handout incorporates an episode from the Myths and Legends podcast as well as passages from the text.
• Answer Key for podcast sheets
• 2007 movie viewing handout (this is great to compare how changes in the plot change the theme of the story)
• Writing prompt to address thematic statement and evidence to support
• Handout with thematic analysis sentence stems to help students in need of support of writing out their analysis
• Boast Like Beowulf PDF handout

Would you like a more detailed look at how this was used in my own classroom? Check out this link!

What are other teachers saying?

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Extremely satisfied

My students loved this resource! It engaged them and helped guide them through the challenging content, and I found it to be fairly adaptable for various overall units. I used it primarily for in person learning, but it also worked well for students who were on digital while we completed it.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Extremely satisfied

This resource is perfect for the hybrid classroom. I was very worried about teaching Beowulf this year but this had everything I needed to keep my students engaged.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very satisfied

This was great to supplement our study of Beowulf. I had a sub for two days in the middle of the unit and this was easy for them to do without losing content days. After our test, several students said that the podcast helped them remember important facts.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very satisfied

Great mini unit. I especially liked the assignments that incorporated the Myth & Legends podcast.

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