August 25, 2015• Get your answers from yesterday’s work at the front table

next to the projector.

• Get a literature book.• Turn to page 68.• Review answers to 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B

• A red pen or other color is suggested to fix mistakes, etc.• Coach Martin has extras!

ANSWER TEXTUAL EVIDENCE

Your answer is also known as a

CLAIM!

Your textual evidence is also

known as a CITATION!

We are going to turn our charts into short answers…

Page 69 – 1A• According to Heaney’s essay, was the original Old English

scop a writer or a musician?

ANSWER TEXTUAL EVIDENCE

On page sixty-eight in paragraph two, it explains that a scop would chant “his poem to the accompaniment of a harp.”

The original Old English scop was a writer and a musician.

• The original Old English scop was a writer and a musician. On page sixty-eight in paragraph two, it explains that a scop would chant “his poem to the accompaniment of a harp.”

Page 69 – 1B• Speculate: In what ways do you think details in this

translation of Beowulf were influenced by the manner in which the tale was originally told?

ANSWER TEXTUAL EVIDENCE

In paragraph two on page sixty-eight, Heaney discusses how a scop would add an instrument to his poems “so the notes he struck with his voice and his instrument [would] fasten his words into the ear and the memory.”

By adding music to oral recitations, the rhythms and the drama and the excitement of the poem grew and caused listeners to remember the story easier.

• By adding music to oral retellings, the rhythms and the drama and the excitement of the poem grew and caused listeners to remember the story easier. In paragraph two on page sixty-eight, Heaney discusses how a scop would add an instrument to his poems “so the notes he struck with his voice and his instrument [would] fasten his words into the ear and the memory.”

Page 69 – 2A• On what voices does Heaney model his translation?

ANSWER TEXTUAL EVIDENCE

On page sixty nine and in paragraph two, he describes how he tuned his voice to the voices that were familiar to him in Northern Ireland.

Heaney modeled his translation on the voices of Northern Ireland.

• Heaney modeled his translation on the voices of Northern Ireland. On page sixty nine and in paragraph two, he describes how he tuned his voice to the voices that were familiar to him in Northern Ireland.

Page 69 – 2B• Infer: Why might it have helped Heaney to have specific

voices in mind as he translated?

ANSWER TEXTUAL EVIDENCE

Heaney stated that he translated by “imagining the poetry being spoken by old neighbors [of Northern Ireland] who always gave their storytelling a natural pace and stress” (69).

Heaney used the voices he had in mind to structure the rhythms of his translation. Keeping specific voices in mind gave the translation a consistency it might have otherwise lacked.

• Heaney used the voices he had in mind to structure the rhythms of his translation. Keeping specific voices in mind gave the translation a consistency it might have otherwise lacked. Heaney stated that he translated by “imagining the poetry being spoken by old neighbors [of Northern Ireland] who always gave their storytelling a natural pace and stress” (69).

QUIZ• Directions: Read each passage and then respond to the question.

Make a logical inference based on textual details and explain your answer by referencing the text and providing textual evidence.

• Kyle ran into his house, slamming the door behind him. He threw his book bag on the floor and plopped onto the couch. After six hours of playing Grand Larceny VII, he ate some pizza and fell asleep with a slice on his stomach and his feet on his book bag. When Kyle came home from school the next day, he was noticeably distraught. He balled up his report card and placed it inside a soup can in the garbage. He then flipped the soup can upside down in the garbage can and arranged loose pieces of trash over it. As he plopped down on the couch, he let out a sigh and picked up his controller. Page 12

• Why is Kyle distraught?