BEOWULF

This week, our topic was Beowulf which is an epic poem.It is the first example of Anglo-Saxon era's works and it reflects the Anglo-Saxon era's society and culture.Its author is unknown but it managed to reach up to the present. General features which we need to know about Beowulf are these.

Now, I want to talk about characters of the poem. The main character is Beowulf who was hero. He was warrior,ruler and wise man. Other characters in the poem are Hrothgar who was the king of Danes, Grendel which was a monster, Grendel's mother, Dragon and Wiglaf who was brave man and helped to Beowulf.

Additionally, I want to mention summary of the poem. Beowulf was a famous and brave man in Geats. One day, a monster attacked to Hrathgar's land. This monster was Grendel. He didn't struggle with him. And he decided to inform Beowulf. Then Beowulf went to there in order to fight Grendel. They fought and finally winner was Beowulf. So, Beowulf proved his power again. He killed Grendel but Grendel's mother would revenge from him. Then, Beowulf came to back his country and he became king. But, shortly after a dragon came to     

Beowulf land. The dragon attacked the 

land and burned homes. It killed everyone in the land. And Beowulf went to find it. While they were fighting, Beowulf was injured. One man saw him. The man's name was Wiglaf. He helped Beowulf but hero bravely died.

As a result, this poem is important work for English Literature. I didn't know anything about it before but I had more information thanks to the lecture. Also, I liked animated form of this poem. It was very effective in order to stimulate the poem.

CELTS

This week, we learned periods of Early English History. While our course teacher was teaching these periods, Celts which were an old tribe were the most interesting thing for me. Therefore, I wanted to have more information about Celts and I investigated them.

According to sources which I wrote, Celts's fatherland was Central Europe. Then they imigrated to British Isles, Spain and Gaul about 4.000 years ago. They were warrior and hunter people. In addition to these features they were perfect farmers. Invented weeled plow and barrel was a proof of unique farmers on their time. Also, they spoke their own languages. Even now, this language is spoken in some countries by peoples. 

Moreover, there was slavery on Celts's System. They used slaves on everywhere. Although they had slavery, the richer Celts cared surprisingly independence and equality.Also, The richer Celts gave equal rights like men to women.So, women had an important role in them.

In addition, Romans destroyed Celts in AD 1. century. However, there are still ruins of Celts on Breton and Ireland.

The First Lesson

Literature is the backbone of a language. English Literature is important for ELT students. Because, we need to know literature of language to learn well. We learn culture, history, authors, and works of language thanks to literature. Also it helps us to correlate among these. Alhough we are ELT students, we need to know and investigate it. My opinions about English Literature are these.                                                                                                                     

I want to talk about our first lesson. It was good. We talked about books, what we will do in this lesson, feedback to us and important of literature. My favorite part of lesson is that we will explain our ideas and opinions clearly. Because, some teachers want that we write things that support their ideas. And, it complicates learning. Also, writing reflection journals to blog every week will be a bit tiresome but I think it will improve us in all respects. Because, these reflection journal will provide doing repetition for lesson as well as it improve our writing skills.

I hope, it will be a successful year for all us.