Grendel Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 108 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Grendel Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 108 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Chapter 1

• NOTE: Citations in this Lesson Plan refer to the following version of the book: Gardner, John. Grendel. Published June 2nd, 2010 by Random House Vintage Books. Paperback edition.

• Grendel is a postmodern fantasy novel that recasts the antagonist from Beowulf as the anti-hero of his own narrative, related from the first-person perspective.

• In Chapter 1, the reader learns that Grendel has been waging his idiotic war for twelve years against the humans.

• Grendel tells about himself and his hatred for nature.

• Grendel torments the men of Hrothgar's hall. He is frustrated with the men but cannot leave them alone.

• Grendel steals bodies from the hall and eats them in the woods, contemplating his cycle of killing sprees.

Chapter 2

• Chapter 2 establishes Grendel’s back-story and describes how he came to the outside world from his mother’s cave.

• Grendel tells about his childhood and the games he used to play...

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