Classwork
- Do Now: Vocabtest.com Junior Unit 2, Quiz B
- Then: Review Quiz A
- After: Student Responsibility for Vocabtest.com reminder
- Finish Reading "The Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong" in The Things They Carried (p.116)
Classwork
- Do Now: How possible do you think it would be for a soldier's girlfriend to be flown into Vietnam during the war? Why would a soldier want this for the person he loves?
- After: How to edit and revise
- Writing Workshop: Revising the Argument Essay
- Then: imagery, symbolism and metaphor in The Things They Carried (Groups discuss: topography of Vietnam, the Green Berets and Mary Anne's transformation)
- Next Argumentative Essay Topic: Does gender change your expectations of a soldier in war?
- Read: "Stockings", "Church", "The Man I Killed", "Ambush" and "Style" (end @ p. 136)
- Write down one object that acts as a symbol from each story you've read so far and bring the list to next class (14 total objects/symbols)
- Optional: Revise Argument Essay 1: A true war story is... (use your online textbook for drafting help, p. 1256-1258) due by last day for late work, 9/21
ATTENTION: LESSON MAY BE ALTERED DUE TO PICTURE-TAKING IN THE CAFETERIA
Classwork
- Do Now: Take out the symbol list that you created. Why was it important for these objects to hold a symbolic meaning?
- Then: Choose next argumentative topic (default if none chosen- Does gender change your expectations of a soldier in war?)
- Writing Workshop (p. 1256-1259) Developing a thesis, Using persuasion in creation of an argument, Drafting strategies, Preliminary Thesis and Outline due by the end of the period
- Begin writing Argument Essay #2 (use the online textbook, p. 1260 for help)
- Study for Vocabtest.com, Junior Unit 3- Quiz A on Monday
- Read: "Speaking of Courage" and "Notes" for Tuesday (end @ p. 161)
