BOOK today Please pick up a white board marker and eraser Pick up the handout Take out The Things They Carried article Bellringer amp Discussion about the article Poem Agenda ID: 530349
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**Need your BOOK today!!Please pick up a white board, marker and eraser.Pick up the handout.Take out The Things They Carried articleBellringer & Discussion about the articlePoem
AgendaSlide2
BellringerAnswer the following on your white boardsWhen you hear about the Vietnam War what are the first people, stories, music, images, technology, etc… that come to your mind?Positive or Negative outlook? Why?Slide3
The Things They CarriedBy Tim O’brienSlide4
The Things They CarriedAnswer the following on your white boards:In the excerpt you read, Tim Obrien discussed many things the brave soldiers carried with them in their sacs.What were some of those things?Why did they carry them?“…P-38 can openers, pocket knives, heat tabs, wrist watches, dog tags, mosquito repellent, chewing gum, candy, cigarettes, salt tablets, packets of Kool-Aid, lighter, matches, sewing kits, Military payment Certificates, C-rations, and two or three canteens of water.”Slide5
What other “things” did the soldiers “carry” with them?Love, responsibility, fear, “silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried”, ghosts, memories, gravity, atmosphere, guilt, emotions, themselves,…How can someone carry these things?The Things They CarriedSlide6
Knowing the “weight” of the things they carried, how do you think the soldiers felt about the war? How/Why?Do they support the fighting?Are they against the fighting?If you had to pick 1 or 2 words to describe the Vietnam War from what you know this far, what would it/they be?The Things They CarriedSlide7
“The Hollow Men”How does this poem connect to The Things They Carried?IWe are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!Our dried voices, whenWe whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without
colour
,
Paralysed
force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us—if at all—not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.Slide8
Around 3.5 million armed mines REMAIN in Vietnam, causing 160 civilian casualties each month. Worldwide, more than 25,000 civilians are killed or maimed by land mines each year. In 1997, the Mine Ban Treaty banned production and use of mines. As of 2014, 139 nations had agreed to the treaty with the U.S., Russia, and China having not signed the treaty. In 2006, President Clinton said the U.S. would sign it if a “suitable alternative to mines was developed”
What would be your plan for a
“
suitable alternative to mines
”?
Minesweeper at the head of a patrol moving along a road