We're going to start reading Beowulf on Monday in class. We're reading the version by Robert Nye, which is basically the Dick-and-Jane version of Beowulf. See Hrothgar. Hrothgar is mad. Grendel ate his friends. Mad Hrothgar, mad. See Beowulf. Beowulf is tough. Kill, Beowulf, kill.
You get the point. Anyway, I have been leading up to this, telling the kids that we will start reading it on Monday. Yesterday in class (actually, in two separate classes), I had kids chomping at the bit, wondering when we could start reading "Bio-Wolf." You know, the story about the robotic wolf.
When I told them the story was about a guy named Beowulf, they were crestfallen. A story about a dude with a funny name? Boring. A story about a robotic wolf? Much cooler.
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Wow, I didn't read Beowulf till my senior year in high school!! Y'all like super smrt or sumthan.
I ultimately gave up with one group of seniors and just forced them to sit through The 13th Warrior. HAHAHAHAHAH
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