Many attractive full-page watercolor and pastel paintings illustrate important action-filled scenes–battles, a banquet, and Beowulf's funeral pyre. The text-filled pages framed with a Celtic-style border are broken up with small watercolor illustrations tucked here and there to help move things along. Morpurgo has retold the tale in twisting, long-winded sentences that call to mind the way in which old epics were recounted by poets and bards. The tale has been divided into three segments: the story of the monster Grendel's defeat the slaying of his mother, the sea-hag and the battle with the death dragon of the deep.
Complete time-line of events using conjunctions and adverbial phrases.Grade 7 Up–Morpurgo retells the classic story of the courageous young warrior from the land of Geats (now southern Sweden) who used his brute strength to save the neighboring Danes, then his own kinsmen, by slaying two horrible monsters, a sea serpent, and a massive dragon.Image what it was like to be one of Beowulf’s soldiers.Write an effective and detailed character description.Identify adverbial phrases and use fronted adverbials in sentences.Write a character profile about Beowulf.Describe the beast and his crimes in two paragraphs.Using expanded noun and prepositional phrases to describe a monster.Write predictions about a character and text.There is no planning attached as it is largely drawn from the Literacy Company planning. This includes PPT’s, differentiated worksheets and supporting materials.
There are appropriately 14 sessions worth of materials that give pupils the opportunity to practise and repeat skills through short writing opportunities. The following bundle of resources is aimed at supporting the teaching and learning of the text: Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo. I’ve used this text and resources with Year 4 several times and then are tried and tested winners at getting even the most reluctant of pupils to do some creative writing. This ancient Anglo-Saxon tale is brilliantly retold by Micheal Morpurgo and has the children enchanted. In fifth-century Denmark, a murderous monster stalks the night, and only the great prince of the Geats has the strength and courage to defeat him.
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