MONDAY
#13: Goodbye Letter, Quaker Share
Review "Rainy River"
-3-level discussions
Review "Enemies" and "Friends"
AP Practice Multiple Choice Practice
HW Read " How to Tell a True War Story" for Thursday. Determine some of the rhetorical devices O'Brien employs to convey the nature of truth.
TUESDAY
Create #14: Graphic Organizer for three types of AP essays and what you need to improve in common rubric categories.
-Argument: "Ownership"
-Rhetorical: "Flamingo"
More Multiple Choice Review
HW Things Carried Practice M/C
WEDNESDAY
Norming Groups
-Synthesis essay; multiple scores, discuss
--add to #14
Score Calculators
HW Read " How to Tell a True War Story" for Thursday. Determine some of the rhetorical devices O'Brien employs to convey the nature of truth.
THURSDAY
Review "How to Tell..."
-determine devices and their effect
Read Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est"
-analyze for devices and effects (WHAT-->HOW-->WHY)
-What is his argument? How do you know?
HW For MONDAY, Read "The Dentist" and "Sweetheart of Tra Bong:" Complete an s/m/t chart for class discussion.
FRIDAY
Read Stephan Crane's "War is Kind"
-compare, contrast to Owen
Discuss development of a Romantic view of War, to a Realistic view of War. Begin conversation which explores O'Brien's approach.
Excerpts from Coleridge's poem.
HW Rhetorical devices terms for categorizing; Begin to answer the essential question: What is the truth of war?
