Grendel Lesson Plan

Final Project

Kind of Activity:

Mixed Media

Objective:

Allow students to interpret the text's themes both analytically and creatively.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1

Structure:

Now that Grendel has met his match in Beowulf, what does it all mean? Does this book have a lesson or moral? Does it illustrate a point about philosophy, or about the meaning of life? And how does it relate to its famous source material?

Students should develop a final project tackling one of the book's central themes. These include:

- Philosophy

- Religion

- Nihilism

- Pursuit of Knowledge/Truth

- Politics

- Violence

Any other theme for which...