I will be absent from class today.
Please finish watching "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam" and answer the reflective questions.
Tuesday, October 7th:
Finish watching the documentary, "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam" and answer the reflective questions.
The questions will be due on Wednesday, October 8th.
Wednesday, October 8th:
Period 1:
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
“Speaking of Courage”
Pages 137 - 143
Vocabulary:
Spacious: adjective something which has a great deal of
space around it or vacant area, or roomy.
Causation: (words which end in “ion” or “ment” are nouns!)
means the cause or reason for the existence of something.
Read pages 137 – 143
Passed out Engrade
Period 2:
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
“Field Trip”
Pages 181
Vocabulary:
Mausoleum: a big tomb in which important, rich people are
buried.
Questions:
1. Why
did Tim O’Brien go back to the sewage field where Kiowa died?
2. What
was the long term emotional effect of Kiowa’s death on Tim O’Brien?
3. What
was the point of O’Brien wading into the water and releasing the moccasins into
the mud where Kiowa died?
4. Describe
the field of death on the night of Kiowa’s death and how it looked when O’Brien
returned twenty years later. What was the emotion O’Brien was feeling at the
field of death?
5. What
do you think the old Vietnamese farmer’s gesture meant?
6. What
does the field represent to Tim O’Brien?
Passed out Engrade.
Thursday, October 9th:
1st Period:
Went over grades, Engrade, format for daily reading
questions
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
“Speaking of Courage”
Pages 144 – 154
Vocabulary:
Valor: (noun) courage, bravery
Valiant (adjective) brave, to have courage
The valiant mother saved her child from the flames.
To win the silver star a soldier must show valor.
Bivouacked: a military term for setting up camp.
"Speaking of Courage" questions; pages 144 - 154
1. What happened to Kiowa?
2. What time, the year and the
season, does the framing part of the story take place? Is Norman in the army or
is he a civilian?
3. Why does O’Brien use Norman
Bowker’s drive around a nondescript lake as a framing device for Kiowa’s death?
4. What is the common object in
both stories – the framing story and Kiowa’s death? What is the symbolic
significance of both objects in the story?
5.Describe the people and the town
that Norman is living in.
6. What happened at the root beer stand between the waitress and the order taker on the intercom? How did the encounter with the waitress make Norman feel? Why couldn't Norman tell his war story to the order taker on the intercom?
7. What is the reason Bowker could
not save Kiowa?
8. What are the parallels between
the story in Viet Nam and the Fourth of July celebration in Bowker’s home town?
Period 2:
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
“The Ghost Soldiers”
Read pages 189 – 215
Friday, October 10th:
Friday, October 10th:
1st Period:
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
“Notes”
pages 155 - 161
Vocabulary:
Feigned: pretend; faked
Indifference: not caring about something at all; not
interested,
Catharsis: a purging of negativity through strong emotion;
the purpose of art is to create strong emotion in the audience in order to
purge (through crying, for example) this negativity.
Paralysis: an inability to move.
Write a brief summary about what happened to Norman Bowker’s
life after he returned home from Viet Nam? It should be in paragraph form and be about half a page.
Please use these questions as a guide as to what you should include in your
summary.
What happened to Norman Bowker after the war?
Why did Bowker drop out of school?
Why did Bowker drop out of school?
Describe Norman Bowker’s life in his hometown.
What was Bowker frustrated by?
What does Bowker say to Tim O’Brien about how his life turned out?
What was Bowker frustrated by?
What does Bowker say to Tim O’Brien about how his life turned out?
Period 2
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
“The Ghosts Soldier”
Pages 189 – 218
Finished reading pages 216 – 218
Skimmed for clarification
Discussion
Read “Night Life”
Pages 219 – 224
Discussion
Read “Lives of the Dead”
Pages 225 – 229
Passed out PSAT booklets
