Friday, September 27

1. Read along to audiobook
Audiobook, The Things They Carried, ch 1, The Things They Carried
    Read by Dylan Baker for Public Radio, International (PRI)
Audiobook, The Things They Carried, The Things They Carried, chapter 1
Audiobook, The Things They Carried, Read by Kelly Cedrone
Audiobook, The Things They Carried, On the Rainy River 
Audiobook, The Things They Carried, Enemies and Friends
Audiobook, The Things They Carried, How to Tell a True War Story
Audiobook, The Things They Carried, Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong
Audiobook, The Things They Carried, The Man I Killed
Audiobook, The Things They Carried, Speaking of Courage, part 1
Audiobook, The Things They Carried, Speaking of Courage, part 2

2. Students do page 15 in vocab book (on back table)
Show answers on overhead (teacher's edition on my desk
Show answers to all five exercises

3. TEST MONDAY OVER ALL TEN OF THESE WORDS!
Keep your exercises to study.

If you have extra time you could look at: Vietnam War Casualties--Statistics
Or absolutely anything Vietnam or 1960's related

Monday, September 23

1. Fill in chart of things they carried
2. Vocab for Thur/Fri
The Things They Carried, audio book under Resources tab, above
Vocabulary/acronyms from The Things They Carried
Memorize all for test next Thur/Friday
3. Read 30 min
4. Vietnam research

Vocabulary used in the novel The Things They Carried
Vocab 1, The Things They Carried
Vocab 2, The Things They Carried
Vocab 3, The Things They Carried

Vietnam War Casualties--Statistics

Audiobook, The Things They Carried, ch 1, The Things They Carried
    Read by Dylan Baker for Public Radio, International (PRI)
The Things They Carried, chapter 1
Audiobook, The Things They Carried, Read by Kelly Cedrone
Audiobook, The Things They Carried, On the Rainy River 
Audiobook, The Things They Carried, Enemies and Friends
Audiobook, The Things They Carried, How to Tell a True War Story
Audiobook, The Things They Carried, Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong
Audiobook, The Things They Carried, Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong, part 2
Audiobook, The Things They Carried, The Man I Killed
Audiobook, The Things They Carried, Speaking of Courage, part 1
Audiobook, The Things They Carried, Speaking of Courage, part 2
Entire novel available on YouTube
The Things They Carried Quizlet deck of acronyms--Quiz next Friday

The Things They Carried

HOMEWORK:
1. READ The Things They Carried to page 25
2. Submit your This I Believe essay to TURNITIN.COM
     Class ID      enrollment key
1ST  22347146   saxons
4TH 22347433   saxons
7TH 22348055   saxons


The Things They Carried, audio book under Resources tab, above
Vocabulary/acronyms from The Things They Carried
Memorize all for test next Thur/Friday




The Things They Carried--The Weight

Double-space!
Name                 Physical Object           Emotional Burden, etc.

Lt. Jimmy Cross Letters; pistol               Sadness; Responsibility for his men

Henry Dobbins  Canned peaches           Misses home
                           23 lb+ machine gun    Burden of killing people


Dave Jensen      Hygiene products             


Ted Lavender    Dope, tranuilizers                 Scared, overwhelmed


Rat Kiley              Comic books Medical supplies; Resp. to keep them alive


Norman Bowker    Diary



Kiowa                 New Testament, hatchet     

Mitchell Sanders   PRC-25 lb. radio