Today's class, after vocab, revolved around 7 leading questions detailing the first four chapters of our favorite baby-child-teenager Grendel and his dealings with man, nature, and his own convoluted version of sanity. During second hour, the thought of Grendel as a bildungsroman was brought up, and I think that could be a topic for an argument. We do witness a conflicted young character navigate the fine line between morality and immorality (obviously, with higher consequences than your typical teenage tale) and how he grows into that "villian" filtering into the epic tales passed from generation to generation. In addition, we have an analogy forming of a "stuck" Grendel: stuck in a tree, stuck in his own mind, stuck between man and nature. Looking forward to fifth hour's impressions on the opening of this text and how little Grendel grows into big Grendel.
If absent, you will need to show me notes for chapters 1-4.
For Tuesday, keep reading chapters 5-7. We'll be doing something different tomorrow with this part of the novel.
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