Beowulf Unit Plan: Fun Activities, Editable Lesson Plans, Modern Pairings, Test

This Beowulf unit plan is designed for an active, creative, and inclusive classroom. With its difficult language and dated topics, Beowulf can be challenging to teach. However, with a little inspiration, it is possible to include meaningful, engaging, and fun activities for teaching Beowulf into your unit plan.

These fun activities for teaching Beowulf will help you bring the archaic epic to life for your modern students!

You will get:

⭐ A detailed day-by-day Beowulf unit plan explaining exactly how and when to use each Beowulf activity and idea

⭐ Beowulf introduction stations

⭐Beowulf introduction PowerPoint

⭐Beowulf community building activity

⭐An activity for each section of Beowulf including:

★Heorot Section

★Grendel Section

★Beowulf Boast Section

★Battle with Grendel Section

★Mother's Revenge Section

★Grendel's Lair Section

★Battle with Grendel's Mother Section

★Dragon Section

★Funeral Section

⭐A Common Core standard alignment for each activity

⭐Discussion questions for each section

⭐Gamification of Beowulf ideas and directions

⭐Beowulf Essay prompt

⭐Beowulf multiple question test

✅ All of the Beowulf resources (except the clipart) are editable to fit your needs.

✅ Everything in this Beowulf unit is both print and digital ready

✅ All of the Beowulf activities can work with ANY Beowulf translation including Raffel and Heaney.
✅ Answer keys are provided for all of these Beowulf resources!

⚠️ Look at the preview to get an idea of the Beowulf activities in this unit plan