More on Beowulf Name:_______________
1. What was the original form of this story?
(What form of literature?)
2. Find two different images of Grendel online, and paste
them here but shrink them in size .
(Shrink them so that you only have ONE PAGE when you print.)
3. Go here. http://www.lone-star.net/literature/beowulf/
a. When was Beowulf written?
b. How many manuscripts are there of Beowulf?
c. Look at the picture on the right at this url. What is unusual about the manuscript? (Read the introduction if you don’t know.)
d. Where is the original manuscript located
today?
e. Enter one of the Episodes at the bottom of
the page. How is this version of Beowulf
different from the version we read in class?
Which is more “true to form?”
4. Print this page
and draw the PLOTLINE with all 5 PLOTLINE ELEMENTS labeled (exposition, rising
action, turning point, falling action, resolution) on the back of this
page. Be sure to include at least
seven to ten details from the story.
