Beowulf/Grendel Curriculum Unit

The hero's story, and the monster's side of it.

Teach Beowulf and John Gardner's Grendel together.

This curriculum unit includes 10–12 classroom-tested lesson plans, plus timesaving reproducible handouts, quizzes, and teaching strategies that sharpen critical-thinking skills as students compare the Old English epic with Gardner's retelling from the monster's point of view.

A powerful pairing. Students see how perspective changes a story.

Every legend has two sides.

4S0962: Spiral-bound, 8 x 11 inches, reproducible. Middle school, high school.