1. Thursday, April 14, 2011 Good morning, English 11! Good morning! Please clear off your desks except for a pencil or pen, your book, and your character log, and Lessons 1 (Alphabet Soup) & 5 (Friendship & War).

2. The Things They Carried Place your character log and Lessons 1 & 5 in your book and close it. Quiz on The Things They Carried, pp. 1-88. KiowaTed LavenderLee Strunk Dave JensenNorman BowkerJimmy Cross Azar Mitchell SandersCurt Lemon Henry DobbinsBobby JorgensonRat Kiley Mary AnneMarthaLinda

3. The Things They Carried QUICKLY finish Lesson 5 with your partner and discuss Lesson 1 – what terms couldn’t you figure out?Turn in Lesson 5.

4. The Things They Carried Is The Things They Carried told in a linear fashion or does it jump around in time? Why might O’Brien have done chosen to tell it this way? Why were the chapters “How to tell a True War Story” and “The Dentist” (65 – 88) placed next to each other in the novel?

5. The Things They Carried What do we learn about what kind of people Curt Lemon and Rat Kiley were? pp. 65 – 88 Does O’Brien feel sorry about Lemon’s death? What other lenses are in these chapters?

6. The Things They Carried Answer this: A war story is true if… pp. 67 – 85 Why are the chapters “Friends” and “Enemies” next to each other in the novel? What was O’Brien telling us about “Friends” and “Enemies” in war? pp. 62 - 88

7. The Things They Carried What was wrong with Rat Kiley when he shot the baby buffalo?

8. The Things They Carried Dateline Video: “A Few Good Men” and notes