This semester, we will use a monthly calendar instead of weekly ones.
That, I hope, I will help you make long-range plans for the research projects and parallels
Check the calendar for upcoming due dates (bolded) and class activities (not bolded).
NOTES ON UPCOMING DUE DATES
- Quiz on first half of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien - Thursday 3/23
- Practice EOC essay (written in class) - Wednesday/29 through Friday 3/31
- Unit Test on War and Alienation texts (including all of The Things They Carried) - Tuesday 4/18
RECENT DOCUMENTS
- Monthly Calendar
- Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- Reading Schedule and Checkpoint Jobs
- Chapter 1 Activity: How Much Does War Weigh
- Connection to "The Real Decoy" on This American Life (the radio documentary we listened to)
- Link to the Audio -- be sure to start at the 19-minute mark
- Transcript (to make it easier to follow along)
- Journal prompt
- Notes on Modernism and Nihilism to better understand the fragmentary structure and the ideas about story truth in "How to Tell a True War Story"
- Notes on deconstruction and metafiction to continue making sense of story truth
- Tracking O'Brien's metafiction across narrative passages
- "Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway
- The story
- Background on Hemingway -- This powerpoint includes assignments for Iceberg principle notes (slide 14) and close reading annotations and summary journal (slide 19)
- Essay on the Iceberg Principle
- War Poems (round 1) - Wilfred Owens' "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young," "Anthem for Doomed Youth," and Randall Jarrell's "Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
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