For extra credit reading this week, I chose to read Part A of the King Arthur unit. While I am familiar with the overall ideas and basic storyline behind King Arthur and his knights of the round table, I have never actually read this story, so I was curious to see what the style of writing was like, and if it matched the pictures I had in my head already. There were 3 main stories I found to be the most interesting.
I found it interesting that in the first section, it mentions Christmas. Later in the story it mentions Candlemas, which I googled and found is a Christian Holy Day celebrated on February 2nd. I think the point of mentioning these two holidays was to represent the time span that this story occurs within. I found the first story overall very familiar in the sense that Arthur pulling the sword out of the stone is one of the more common images he is associated with.
The second story of the Questing Beast was less familiar and I found it very interesting. I came across the mention of Merlin, which was cool because I didn't know these two characters were associated in the same storyline. I thought it was cool that Merlin presented himself in the form of a boy knight to Arthur and then prophesied their futures.
The final story I found most interesting was the Quest of the Holy Graal. In the note within the reading, I found something I didn't know about, which was that there were so many translations of this story and so many possibilities of alterations that there is no way to know the accuracy and truth behind this story. This is a story that I was familiar with, but did not really understand everything that had led up to it.
Overall, the writing style was easy to follow and grammatically easy to read. I liked that this writing was more prose and presented in a way that only a few cultural ideas or words needed to be looked up.
Bibliography: King Arthur Tales of the Round Table by Andrew Lang, King Arthur Unit
I found it interesting that in the first section, it mentions Christmas. Later in the story it mentions Candlemas, which I googled and found is a Christian Holy Day celebrated on February 2nd. I think the point of mentioning these two holidays was to represent the time span that this story occurs within. I found the first story overall very familiar in the sense that Arthur pulling the sword out of the stone is one of the more common images he is associated with.
The second story of the Questing Beast was less familiar and I found it very interesting. I came across the mention of Merlin, which was cool because I didn't know these two characters were associated in the same storyline. I thought it was cool that Merlin presented himself in the form of a boy knight to Arthur and then prophesied their futures.
The final story I found most interesting was the Quest of the Holy Graal. In the note within the reading, I found something I didn't know about, which was that there were so many translations of this story and so many possibilities of alterations that there is no way to know the accuracy and truth behind this story. This is a story that I was familiar with, but did not really understand everything that had led up to it.
Overall, the writing style was easy to follow and grammatically easy to read. I liked that this writing was more prose and presented in a way that only a few cultural ideas or words needed to be looked up.
Bibliography: King Arthur Tales of the Round Table by Andrew Lang, King Arthur Unit
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