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Alex Helton
1/16/2012 09:41:59 am
My favorite, chosen role was Illustrator: The first part of the role (for me) was to come up with an idea or image. Solely from the Beowulf text "Murders of Grendel" My Image was Grendel coming from from his banished land, and approaching the mead-hall "Heorot" .
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Ms. Marcum
1/16/2012 09:49:47 am
Alex, what a wonderful first comment! I love the detail you included to support why you enjoyed this role. Consider yourself the winner of well-deserved bonus points :)
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Jason Riley
1/17/2012 08:33:05 am
I agree with Alex. Illustrator was also my favorite pArt because I got to draw something that interested me the most and that gave me the best visual image. I also like what Alex drew and how it gives him a good image. I have also learned a better understanding of what is happening in the story.
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Kristen
1/18/2012 01:36:50 am
I agree with Alex and Jason. My favorite role was also illustrator. It's a good way to better understand the passages.
Jason Riley
1/17/2012 08:28:28 am
My favorite role was probably the illustrator. It was my favorite role because I got to choose a part in the story that gave me a visual image in my head. The illustration I drew was the stag antlers because it was a symbol of Royalty. I found that very interesting.
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Blake linville
1/20/2012 01:00:58 am
I agree with Jason the illustrator role was my favorite. I also agree that it gives us a good vision of the story and what it's like.and it really helps to get the setting of the story in your head.
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Caitlin Reynolds
1/17/2012 10:42:09 pm
My favorite role was probably the questioner. I felt that it was the easiest one to do. The sample questions in the literary circle packet made it easy to come up with my own, and answer them based on what I've read in the text. I learned more about the life and way of thinking of the people from this particular time period. It's different from our modern day lives and thoughts. I completed my tasks based on my personal thoughts, and my knowledge.
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Caleb Goss
1/17/2012 10:43:13 pm
I believe my favorite was connector. I mean my group was very easy to give me that which I thank them for it. The task of mine was connecting world or current events to sections in the Beowulf. The best one was where Grendel killed thirty men in their sleep and they never await coming and I related it to 9/11 no one saw that coming. It's my favorite because I'm very outgoing and connected with my world today.
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Summer Johnson
1/18/2012 01:03:15 am
I agree with Caleb, I think the comparison of 9-11 and grendels murder of thirty men. No one seen either one of those things coming.
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Ashlee Adams
1/17/2012 10:45:57 pm
My favorite role was the illustrator. I thought it was the easiest and I love to draw. I learned different techniques. I drew them having a party.
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Ashlee Adams
1/17/2012 10:47:34 pm
I agree with Alex. He had the perfect idea that related to all the text. I think we can learn a lot from the drawings. It helps explain the text more.
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Caitlin Reynolds
1/17/2012 10:47:38 pm
Alex H.'s painting is turning out really well. He's a great artist and I can see why being the illustrator was he favorite role. Although I'm not the best artist, I liked the role as well, but it was not my favorite one out of all the one's I did.
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Kelsie Barrett
1/17/2012 10:49:23 pm
My favorite role would have to be illustrator. Mostly because it's the easiest. And it is fun. I like to read and then draw what I think is happening.
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Nancy Shepard
1/19/2012 06:22:59 am
I agree with Kelsie. Illustrator is the easiest, and it gives you a new way to learn by picturing it in your head. If you draw it and then think about it in your head its a better understanding. You can also interpret the text better if you see it in other way other than the form it was wrote in.
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Kelsie Barrett
1/17/2012 10:54:09 pm
I agree with Jason. Because it gives you a visual image. and I think that Alex explained it very well. And I have learned to interpret the text to.
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Scott lamb
1/17/2012 11:04:52 pm
My favorite role so far has been illustrator. I think that was the easiest. I am not a good drawer at all, but I think my drawing turned out pretty good. I drew what I think Grendel looks like.
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Scott lamb
1/17/2012 11:04:53 pm
My favorite role so far has been illustrator. I think that was the easiest. I am not a good drawer at all, but I think my drawing turned out pretty good. I drew what I think Grendel looks like.
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Scott lamb
1/17/2012 11:08:27 pm
I agree with Jason Riley. His favorite part was also illustrator, as was mine. Although I drew grendel I see what he was talking about when he drew the stag horns. That idea was good.
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Kai h
1/18/2012 12:54:22 am
My favorite role was probably the questioner. I felt that it was the easiest one to do. The sample questions in the literary circle packet made it easy to come up with my own, and answer them based on what I've read in the text. I learned more about the life and way of thinking of the people from this particular time period. It's different from our modern day lives and thoughts.
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Kai h
1/18/2012 12:56:41 am
I agree with caitlin R it was the easiest part of all.
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Summer Johnson
1/18/2012 12:59:25 am
My favorite role was the questioner. This was my favorite because it helped me to be able to understand Beowulf. The questions that you answer make the story understandable, and easier to comprehend since it was wrote in old English. An example is the question " how did I feel while reading this text? Whats the author doing to make me feel this way?" it helped me think about the mood of the story and made me want to read more.
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Gordon Witt
1/18/2012 01:00:13 am
My favorite role is the connnector. Because that's the one stand out to me at the begain. You just pick things out. Just come pair to ever day life or what happen in the pass.
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Kali Lakes
1/18/2012 09:48:49 pm
Gordon does makea good point, the connector is the best role. It does stand out in the story. Only having to find things in real life is easy to find. You just have to find what the line makes you think of.
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KD Webb
1/18/2012 01:00:19 am
Yesterday I we the connector. I was also pretty easy because you had to read a line and connect it to something that has happened to you, or to others. But it would've been a lot easier if I had had my packet yesterday to read off of it.
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Kd Webb
1/18/2012 01:01:56 am
I agree with Alex, I think tht being the illustrator is going to be the easiest one. I thinks for those people who like to draw and that are good at it, are going to enjoy this job.
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Samantha Sonnemann
1/18/2012 01:17:51 am
My favorite role out of all 4 is the illustrator. It's my favorite roll because I got to take text and turn into a picture that could show the meaning more easily. The purpose of the role is to show something in different ways so more people can understand it. I've learned that there's more than one way to go about learning something.
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Samantha Sonnemann
1/18/2012 01:19:24 am
I agree with Kelsie Barrett because illustrator was easiest, yet it was fun at the same time. It's fun to do things differently than the normal way of doing things.
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Kristen Hensley
1/18/2012 01:37:51 am
My favorite role was the illustrator. It made you have to think, and comprehend what you read and put it into your own image. It's a better way for me to learn, and I think more kids would enjoy that. It's a good way to learn.
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brandon barnett
1/18/2012 02:11:17 am
My favorite role so far has been the illustrator. Its really easy and fun.:) Im not a drawer, but its fun to use my imagination and to draw what grendal looks like. I have learned how to interpret the text or what im reading.
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Brandon Barnett
1/18/2012 02:15:30 am
@ scott lamb. yea thats true. The illustrator is the easiest and the funnest.:) It doesnt matter how good you draw as long as you get your ideas down and happy with what it looks like in the end.
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Brooke edmister
1/18/2012 05:17:57 am
I loved illustrator it was so fun to do. Illustrator let's you express The meaning of things in drawlings not words. It also let you do stuff or draw stuff other people would never draw or think of. So yes illustrator was my favorite out of them all.
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Kendall Mitchell
1/18/2012 09:30:55 am
I agree with Brooke. Illistrator is more fun than any of them. You use your own ideas to create something no one else would think of. It makes things more fun by looking at pictures than having to read a text.
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Kendall Mitchell
1/18/2012 09:30:55 am
I agree with Brooke. Illistrator is more fun than any of them. You use your own ideas to create something no one else would think of. It makes things more fun by looking at pictures than having to read a text.
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Cory hatfield
1/18/2012 08:03:50 am
My favorite role was the word wizard. My job was to find kennings, alliterations, and figurative language. I liked it because it was easy. I liked the kennings the best because they describe words like pictures.
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Bradley Broughton
1/18/2012 08:51:58 am
My favorite role is illustrator. It was fun to do. It was pretty simple too. That is why I like the role of illustrator.
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Josh mcnemar
1/18/2012 09:12:52 am
My favorite role was illustrator. I think the illustrator role works very well for me because I just have idea after idea while reading the story. I mean my picture is of Grendel dragging a slayed Dane back to his den. But I had a ton of other ideas. For example a picture of a ledge overlooking the great mead hall with Grendel perched on it. I learned to visualize the story.
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Josh mcnemar
1/18/2012 09:17:26 am
I am agreeing with Alex Helton. I love to draw and doing it for a project is great. I also think visualizing the story is a great way to learn. I was also good at interpreting the text.
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Kendall Mitchell
1/18/2012 09:29:21 am
I think illistrator is my favorite. It's easier to understand things by looking at drawings. It makes it more fun. When you put things in your own image it's easier to understand. So illistrator is my favorite.
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haley Lawson
1/18/2012 08:17:21 pm
my favorite job would be illustrator. I like drawing and doing "projects like that" it is fun. being the illustrator you can make it what you want or how you see it. we all can read the same story and we all will see it differently.
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Cody M.
1/18/2012 09:31:25 pm
My favorite role was word wizard. It was actually the easiest role to me.i felt like I actually enjoyed pay such close attention to detail and determining what exactly the similes metaphors and hidden messages meant. I learned that similes and metaphors are used to put better emphasis on situations.
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Kali Lakes
1/18/2012 09:46:00 pm
My favorite role is the connector. All I have to do as connectors find things in real life that relate to the story. The reason why it is my favorite role, is because it is really easy to find how certain parts of the story relates to life. I completed it by just finding parts in the story that makes me think of parts in real life.
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Kelsee burchfield
1/18/2012 10:10:03 pm
My favorite task to do was the illustrator. I liked the drawing. I thought it was fun and pretty easy. I liked that you got use your imagination in it.
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Katie Land
1/18/2012 10:37:23 pm
My favorite role has definitely been the Illustrator. You get to be creative and it's actually pretty easy! I love messing around with collages. Pictures express more than words, I think.
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Katie Land
1/18/2012 10:39:42 pm
I agree with Brooke Edmister. I think, pictures can express more than you can say in words. Also, people love to look at pictures instead of reading a lot of words. Pictures are more exciting and fun to look at.
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Kelsee burchfield
1/18/2012 10:58:29 pm
I agree with bradley. Illustrator was one of the easiest and was fun. It was simple. And you could use your imagination. And have fun with it.
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Victoria shearer
1/18/2012 11:16:09 pm
My favorite role drawer/illustrator. I like it cause it's a different way of learning and expressing things. It also is more fun. It's creative and you get to use your own ideas.
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Victoria shearer
1/18/2012 11:17:48 pm
I agree with Brooke. You get to be creative and everybody's is different. It's a way to express what you see when you read the story. It was my favorite option
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Zach king
1/19/2012 12:55:18 am
My favorite role was the illustrator.im a very visual learner.it helps a lot to be able to draw what you see in your mind when you read the passage describing Grendel and where he lives.
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Cody C.
1/19/2012 04:55:22 am
My favorite role was illustrator because I got to draw the mental image that I got in my head while I was reading Beowulf. It was also the easiest role to do.
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Cody C
1/19/2012 04:59:15 am
I agree with Gordon because when you are the connector you just compare things from Beowulf to things in today's everyday life.
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Tyler hicks
1/19/2012 05:12:22 am
I would say that the Connecter was my favorite task because I liked connecting the story theme to today's time and other stories in today's time with the same meaning.i also liked because as I was finding out stories and what it was related to in today's I got a better understanding.
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Tyler hicks
1/19/2012 05:19:49 am
I have to also agree with Alex I also enjoyed the illustrater it was a fun task for many to be able to use there artistic abilities and those with a very artistic mind. This role also help with getting a mental picture of the story. At first I had a hard time with that but once I got to see the groups work on the illustrator part I got a better understanding and was able to connect to the story and get a mental picture.
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Nancy Shepard
1/19/2012 06:20:15 am
I think that my favorite role had to be the illustrator. I am a visual learner and thats what is easiest for me. Its also a fun way to learn. Illustrating a picture gave me a way to better understand the story and give me a picture image in my head.
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Austin Andrew
1/19/2012 06:27:17 am
As i mentioned in the other blog, I liked the illustrator role the best. I was supposed to make an image in my mind from the scene of the story. So i drew what i thought Beowul\f would look like. I guess what I learned to use important words in the text to create an image in my mind.
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Austin Andrew
1/19/2012 06:30:49 am
I agree with Alex Helton. the role as an illustrator was a good way to use the pasage as a tool to create a mental image. This was also the thing that i learned form that particular role. this was by far my favorite role because it didnt seem as hard to me as the others did.
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Joe Thomas
1/19/2012 06:41:21 am
My favorite role was probably the word wizard. It was probably the easiest thing to do. That was also the only thing i did too. Plus you made us underline the kennings and stuff like that!
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Jamie Hall
1/19/2012 06:42:36 am
My favorite role would have to be the literary luminary. I liked finding quotes from the story and finding hidden meanings, or controversial ideas in them. I enjoyed taking the story one passage at a time and trying to interpret it. It also helped me to better understand the story better.
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Joe Thomas
1/19/2012 06:43:33 am
I disagree with Alex. Illustrator would probably be the hardest thing for me to do. I have no drawing skills at all! Plus I'm not that creative either.
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Jamie Hall
1/19/2012 06:47:07 am
I agree with Caitlin. The questioner was also a pretty simple role. Though it definitely wasn't my favorite, it was pretty enjoyable. It was actually one of the roles that required less thinking.
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Tyler hagan
1/19/2012 07:12:08 am
My favorite role for the literary circles is the "connector" role. The reason why I like this role is because I love connecting stories or situations to my personal problems, or current world problems. I've completed this task by just brainstorming the world, and personal issues that we have today and based them on the book "Beowulf ".
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Tyler hagan
1/19/2012 07:13:51 am
I agree with Alex Helton. I figured your favorite role would be the illustrator. The reason why I think this is cause that's pretty much all I ever see you do. I never fail to see you without a pencil or paper in your hand about to draw! Keep it up man!
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Brooke Edmister
1/19/2012 07:47:49 am
I agree with Kendall mitchell. Illustrator you can understand things much easier by looking at the drawings. Illustrator is the funniest one out of all of them. I agree with her the most when she said that you can understand it more when you put it in your own image.
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Heather Lainhart
1/19/2012 07:50:54 am
My favorite role is the word wizard.Because it help's my group see how figurative language contributes to the story's meaning and makes it come alive. I have completed that role by doing my best and finish it on time.I have learned how comitatus, kennings and others help understand the story better .It's my favorite,because it's the second easiest one behind Illustrator and it's help me understand Beowulf better.
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Zach grant
1/19/2012 08:11:22 am
My favorite role was literary luminary. This was my favorite because it helped me the best. It made it Easier to follow the story.it was also the easiest role.
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Zach grant
1/19/2012 08:14:20 am
I agree with summer Johnson .the questioner was a good role. It was a verry simple task. It still wasn't my favorite though.
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Heather Lainhart
1/19/2012 08:23:04 am
I agree with Caitlin R. I agree with her because with any of the roles,you can learn more abouy the people who lived back then . It's different then our language now and having the role I do now helps me understand more.I also think that our roles are the same and easier.
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Aliesha sams
1/19/2012 09:28:41 am
My favorite role that I have had would have to be connecter. Connecter was my favorite role because I can relate things together. The main part I liked about the connecter, was that when I relate things to the story I understand it more clearly. It helps me learn and think more.
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cody richmond
1/19/2012 09:50:29 am
my favorite role is probably the connector. I chose this because i can compare things in the story to my life or past events or the real world. This is cool because i can learn about events while trying to compare, and i could relate to beowulf and understand the epic poem better.
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Ben Powell
1/19/2012 10:29:38 am
My favorite part was the connector. Because as the connector we got to take and connect things from the past or what was happening right know. I learned that when Grendel killed the 30 men that we could take and apply it to what we wanted. It was the easyest part I think because it didnt take a lot o time to do we just had to think more than any part.
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Zack Tate
1/19/2012 11:41:31 pm
My favorite role in literary circle was questioner. The reason why is cause i expressed what i didn't understand and help me understand. I also liked how i could ask my own questions. The reason why its my favorite cause it was fun and wasn't hard.
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Blake linville
1/20/2012 12:57:09 am
My favorite role would have to be illustrator. It seems pretty easy and you can learn a lot. As the illustrator you get to draw pictures of an important part in the section. Which I think would help us learn more and get a picture in our head of what the setting of the story really is.
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Mark Agee
1/20/2012 01:03:03 am
My favorite role was the illustrator. I like drawing, and doing it with Beowulf makes it easyer to understand for me. I like drawing things that interest me and make me think. That's why I liked the illustrator.
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Mark Agee
1/20/2012 01:04:26 am
I agree with Alex Helton. He also liked the illustrator. It's s great way to express yourself. It also makes beowulf easier to understand!
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Germy
1/20/2012 02:09:59 am
My favoret one is word wizerd because it's really simple and and easy enough that I can do it
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Buddy Harrison
1/20/2012 02:10:57 am
I like illustrator because it gives me a chance to be creative and draw witch I LOVE to do
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Shelby Dixon
1/20/2012 03:02:36 am
My favorite role of the literary circles is connector. It's my favorite because its the easiest and I get it. I like comparing the story to real life. So that's my favorite role.
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Shelby Dixon
1/20/2012 03:02:36 am
My favorite role of the literary circles is connector. It's my favorite because its the easiest and I get it. I like comparing the story to real life. So that's my favorite role.
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Shelby Dixon
1/20/2012 03:04:03 am
I agree with Kali. Connector is the easiest. The easiest part is relating your life to beowulf. Kali is right.
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Gordon Witt
1/20/2012 03:07:39 am
My favorite role is connecter. It was easy. Because you do stuff with the story.you learn stuff from the story
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Yadira
1/20/2012 03:07:50 am
Connector.
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Karen McKinney
1/20/2012 03:19:00 am
My favorite role so far would be the illustrator. To me it was the easiest one cause it didnt involve a lot of writing. I have made a collage of Beowulf and breca when they are having the swim match.
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Bethany Maynard
1/20/2012 10:06:24 am
My fav role was illustrator. I enjoy the artistic view of the story and trying to creat it and bring it to life. I learn how it helps me understand it and just puts an image in my head of what's going on. Plus it was easy and fun so even though it took me a while to finish It didn't seem that long cause I enjoyed it.
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Tyler rose
1/25/2012 07:52:35 pm
My favorite was the illustrator. It make Beowulf easier to understand and I could creative a mental image which made it easier for me.
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