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When did you read Beowulf?

When did you read Beowulf?

  • College

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Senior year of high school

    Votes: 2 12.5%

  • Junior year of high school

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Sophomore year of high school

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Freshman year of high school

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Junior High

    Votes: 2 12.5%

  • I have yet to read it

    Votes: 12 75.0%
  • Total voters
    16
Haven't read it yet.

Father and sister acted it out, though.

Sister being Beowulf, of course. XD
 
Read it for the first time senior year of high school. Our teacher challenged us to draw what we thought Grendel looked like--my Grendel looked like a Chinese dragon thing.
 
In high school:

Freshman = first year
Sophomore = second year
Junior = third year
Senior = fourth year.

Although the poll isn't that effective considering that a good number of people here aren't American and don't even go by that. :D;

On topic, I read what was probably a condensed version in sixth grade. Way before high school. :o
 
Usually, you go into Freshman year as a fourteen-year-old.

Unless you're like me and have your birthday at the end of august, in which case you might start as a thirteen-year-old. :D
 
Usually Middle School/Junior High is ages 11-14 and high school is ages 14-18. Most people are 18 by the time they finish High School.

I was 14-15 my first year, 15-16 my second, I'll be 16-17 this year, and 17-18 my last year.
 
Spaekle Oddberry said:
Usually Middle School/Junior High is ages 11-14 and high school is ages 14-18. Most people are 18 by the time they finish High School.

I was 14-15 my first year, 15-16 my second, I'll be 16-17 this year, and 17-18 my last year.
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Unless you're like me and your birthday's two days after school starts. :D
 
It's a good thing I've never read it, because our school system works completely differently and it would make no sense for me to even attempt to convert it to American school years.
 
Cirrus said:
Freshman = first year
Sophomore = second year
Junior = third year
Senior = fourth year.
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That's, uh, technically correct, but conflicts with the "years" system :x

Anyways, senior year could be regarded as most similar to year 12 or sixth form.

And I read it during my senior year, which was British Literature.

And shame on you, Cirrus >:|
 
I read it in last year... 13-14, Freshman Year, right? Except we didn't read all of it, just up to when Grendal gets pwnt. I pretty much know the story anyway, so I got a few laughs out of how crap the movie was.
 
Mudkip said:
That's, uh, technically correct, but conflicts with the "years" system :x

Anyways, senior year could be regarded as most similar to year 12 or sixth form.

And I read it during my senior year, which was British Literature.

And shame on you, Cirrus >:|
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Cirrus... didn't post that. D: *raises hand*

I was just saying which year of high school corresponded with which name. I thought that the names were confusing people or something. Although I guess it doesn't matter if the system's completely different over there.
 
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Your crazy American systems confuse me, but I read it a few years back. I was 15, maybe? Can't say it changed my life or anything, though. There are better classics.
 
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