PPT-Reading The things They carried

The skills we are going to work on while reading some of the stories in this collection are Making connections between two different texts in our situation they are texts by the same author and they are intended to be read together however these skills can be used even when those things arent the case. sparknotes2. 1. SparkNotes. Editors. (2002). . SparkNote. on The Things They Carried. Retrieved June 28, 2013, from http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/thingscarried. /. O’Brien uses the list of physical objects that the members of the Alpha Company carry in Vietnam as a window to the emotional burdens that these soldiers bear. One such burden is the necessity for the young soldiers to confront the tension between fantasy and reality. The realization of this tension disrupts Cross’s stint as the resident dreamer of the Alpha Company.. By . Tim O’Brien. Chapters 1 through 4. Vocabulary. 5 Steps for Vocab Journal. Write word and page number. Write sentence with word from the book. Write you own definition. Write the actual definition and part of speech. Journals. Journal #. 1. Imagine . you’re a soldier in the jungles of Vietnam. Like all soldiers, you carry at least 30 pounds of equipment with you as you trudge across the country; this does not include personal items, such as photographs or chewing gum. Every personal thing you bring adds to the heavy weight on your shoulders. . Journals. Journal #. 1. Imagine . you’re a soldier in the jungles of Vietnam. Like all soldiers, you carry at least 30 pounds of equipment with you as you trudge across the country; this does not include personal items, such as photographs or chewing gum. Every personal thing you bring adds to the heavy weight on your shoulders. . By Tim O’Brien. The Vietnam War. By Matt Harrington. How it Started. North Vietnam was Communist and had the support of communist nations (USSR). South Vietnam was created by France (Later had support of US). The Things They Carried reflects on the experiences of the soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s. Read the excerpt and answer the questions that follow. from The Things They From “The Man I Killed” to . “The Lives of the Dead”. The Man I killed . Symbolism. How does O’Brien humanize the enemy by telling his story?. What does the story say about men and war? What is the argument?. 8. th. of January 2017. . Not . a theological faculty but a fellowship of people with hope. Not . a platform of . debate. , but a pulpit of God’s Grace . Not . a place to outwit one another but where all of us feel safe. . Bellringer. : Princeton Vocabulary #1. “Reading” Narrative Due & Reflection . Introduction to the Text and the Author. Narrative Reflection. What did you hope to accomplish in your “reading” narrative? . Meyer / AP English 11. Tim O’Brien: A Profile. O’Brien primarily a writer of fiction. Vowed to stop writing fiction in 1994; a few months later, published a famous essay in the NYT describing his return to My Lai, site of a four hour massacre. Personal Pronouns. Never use personal pronouns (of any kind) in formal writing. I , you, we , us , etc. . Instead use “one” for I or YOU . OR. just eliminate I altogether (it’s actually redundant information) . Notes. Here in "Notes" O'Brien tries his technique of giving you "the real story." He has just presented "Speaking of Courage" and now wants to give you the inside scoop of the "real" Norman . Bowker. THE FLORIDA REAL ESTATE COMMISSION Chair Roger Enzor called the meeting of the Florida Real Estate Commission to order, at approximately 8:30 a.m., in Orlando, Florida, on this 14th day of September, Don\'t do things better do better things.Digital technology. It has crept into our lives and so deeply has it penetrated us that it has completely redesigned us. In the deep oceans and the high skies it is now as elemental in our landscape as the wind and falling rain. It\'s not going to stop.Due to the way civilisations progress we are about to zip-line and observe more change in the next ten years than of the last hundred. But how do we prevent this acceleration from eroding away our humanity? As technology becomes increasingly immaterial ask this does the technology we\'ve created add more layers of confusion? When we strip away all the technology what are we left with? The same thing we started with -- people.Incorporating the psychological and philosophical fields into the design process Pete Trainor takes us back to the fundamental questions that drive us and through a journey of design thinking he asks one simple question the one we have asked through all times... why?