1. ABSENT PEOPLE If you were absent on Monday, 5/23, please complete the following: 1.Complete your fill-in-the-blank notes using this PowerPoint. This PowerPoint can be found on Mrs. Dragavon’s website under English 12 documents/The Things They Carried/Surrealism 2.WATCH the video on slide 4 3.On a separate piece of notebook paper… A.Write a two sentence summary of surrealism based on the video B.Answer (in complete sentences) the five questions about EACH painting 4.Turn the notebook paper with the summary + 10 answers in to Mrs. Dragavon 5.KEEP the notes sheet and use it during our reading of “The Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”

2. Surrealism Our purpose is to develop a basic understanding about surrealism so that we can examine how Tim O’Brien uses it (surrealism) in the story/chapter “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong.” What do you know about surrealism? Please write down everything you know or think you know about surrealism in the box on the handout. Monday, 5/23

3. Surrealism in Literature Meant to be strange and shocking. Meant to push the envelope in a way that forces people out of their comfortable ideas Common characteristics in literature: 1. Uses contrasting images or ideas. Helps readers make new connections and expand the reader's reality, or rather the reader's idea of what reality is. Influenced by Freudian ideas of 'free association' as a way to steer readers away from societal influence and open up the individual's mind. 2. Uses images and metaphors to compel the reader to think deeper and reveal subconscious meaning. Instead of relying on plot, surrealist writers instead focus on the characters, discovery, and imagery to force readers to dig into their unconscious and analyze what they find. 3. Uses poetic styles to create dreamlike and fantastic stories that often defy logic. Uses poetic techniques, like leaps in thinking (free association), abstract ideas, and nonlinear timelines. Source: http://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-surrealism-definition-artists.htmlhttp://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-surrealism-definition-artists.html Monday, 5/23 Please take notes on your handout.

4. Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI0U0lQRbug&feature=share

5. Examples of Surrealism in Art (Salvador Dali) Questions to consider: 1.How is this strange and shocking? 2.How might this push people out of their comfort zones? 3.How does it use contrasting images and ideas? 4.How does it defy logic? 5.How does this force the viewer to think deeper? (Hint—consider the title) The Persistence of Memory Monday, 5/23

6. Examples of Surrealism in Art (Salvador Dali) Questions to consider: 1.How is this strange and shocking? 2.How might this push people out of their comfort zones? 3.How does it use contrasting images and ideas? 4.How does it defy logic? 5.How does this force the viewer to think deeper? (Hint—look up the meaning of the title) Three Sphinxes of Bikini Monday, 5/23