1. Warm up, 9/21
Look over the notes from your homework on how to write a true war story. Write a quick sentence that summarizes the “ingredients”.
Do you agree with O’Brien’s recipe? Did anything stick out to you as particularly odd or surprising?

2. Learning Targets
To connect content from one chapter of The Things They Carried and apply it to the form of the next chapter.
To utilize a formalist critical lens in order to better understand a story.
To produce thorough and independently created work.

3. Journal Check
In order to receive FULL CREDIT, I need to see all of the work you’ve been doing in class. I’ll specifically be looking at these assignments:
WWII Vignettes group work (9/16)
On the Rainy River group work (9/17)
ALL NOTES (homework), VOCAB

4. Independent Work
IF YOU DIDN’T DO IT YET: Read “Enemies,” “Friends,” “How to Tell a True War Story” (by Monday, 9/22).
Keep track of the features, or “ingredients,” of a true war story according to Tim O’Brien’s “recipe.”
IF YOU’VE READ HOW TO TELL A TRUE WAR STORY,: Today, you will use the notes you took for homework to complete the task for our fifth reading, The Dentist and Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong.
While you’re reading, use the handout to record how O’Brien tells a war story using the ingredients from his own recipe, as indicated in How to Tell a True War Story.

5. Homework
Finish reading Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong, and complete the reading guide handout.
words of a college admissions essay/personal statement, typed and printed out, due on Wednesday, 9/23 (4nd period only: Thursday, 9/24).