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Umm in class this week….. we talked alot about Beowulf, one thing I think really helped me was the fact that we all sat down and talked alot about the book. One time Ms. Duke told like four people to like summerize what they read for the night befores homework, and I think that helped me alot. After reading the first couple of pages I asked myself “what in the world just happened” and i sat there and tried to figure out exactly what happened, and I could not comprehend it. But when we got to class the next day our great teacher took the time out of her day to explain exacltly what happened throughout the first couple of pages, I thought this really helped me and I think that we should do it more often.

Wow, to my suprise this book is legit, meaning that it is a pretty good book. Beowulf is a complete hoss, hes amazing. This peom is great, cant get any better (unless if we didnt have to read haha) but it is full of action and has a great main character in Beowulf, which is exactly what i like to see in a book.

As I was reading the first couple of days I started to think it would be a good idea to try and find some of the things we have been talking about in class like the poetic elements (versification and alliteration). I must admit, these things are really hard for me to find, it takes a while and I have to like stop focusing on the story and focus on these things to find it. Its frustrating, so I stopped which isnt the best idea.