NAME_____________________________________ Instructions: Illustrate the scenes below, using not only details in the quotes found here, but context clues from the text. Be very careful about those little details… giving someone a sword who isn’t holding one…crowns for kings who didn’t wear crowns… easy way to lose points! Drawings don’t need to be works of art, but they do need to be clear, detailed and accurate. 1. 2. 3. Hrothgar builds hall that would powerful monster, lying down in the when darkness had dropped, “a …reach “A “Then, higher toward Heaven than anything that had darkness, growled in pain, impatient as day Grendel went up to Herot” ever been known to the sons of man.” after day the music rang loud in the hall” 4 5. 6. Grendel Grendel up thirty men, smashed snatched at the Geat he came them sprawled in sleep…. he “snatched “Grendel “found slipped through the door and in the silence” them…” to, ripped him apart, cut his body to bits with … powerful jaws, drank the blood from his veins and bolted him down, hands and feet” 7. 8. 9. he stepped to another still body, the aisles the battle swept, angry band had jumped from their “Then “Down “Beowulf’s clutched Beowulf with his claws… and was beds, ancestral swords raised and ready…. and wild.” instantly seized himself, claws bent back as They could hack at Grendel from every side… Beowulf leaned up on his arm.” but their points could not hurt him, the sharpest and hardest iron could not scratch at his skin”
NAME_____________________________________ Instructions: Illustrate the scenes below, using not only details in the quotes found here, but context clues from the text. Be very careful about those little details… giving someone a sword who isn’t holding one…crowns for kings who didn’t wear crowns… easy way to lose points! Drawings don’t need to be works of art, but they do need to be clear, detailed and accurate. 1. Hrothgar builds “a hall that would …reach higher toward Heaven than anything that had ever been known to the sons of man.” 2. “A powerful monster, lying down in the darkness, growled in pain, impatient as day after day the music rang loud in the hall” 3. “Then, when darkness had dropped, Grendel went up to Herot” 4 Grendel “found them sprawled in sleep…. he slipped through the door and … in the silence” 5. Grendel “snatched up thirty men, smashed them…” 6. “Grendel snatched at the Geat he came to, ripped him apart, cut his body to bits with powerful jaws, drank the blood from his veins and bolted him down, hands and feet” 7. “Then he stepped to another still body, clutched Beowulf with his claws… and was instantly seized himself, claws bent back as Beowulf leaned up on his arm.” 8. “Down the aisles the battle swept, angry and wild.” 9. “Beowulf’s band had jumped from their beds, ancestral swords raised and ready…. They could hack at Grendel from every side… but their points could not hurt him, the sharpest and hardest iron could not scratch at his skin”
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