Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Circle: What are your fears?  Heights? Conflict? Snakes? Flying? The dark?

Reading: Bring your book to class! "We read to know we are not alone." – C.S. Lewis

Vocab Practice?

Macro Perspective

Finish From yesterday: Summarize 3 key principles of a just war.

Appeasement: Read the article; find 3 quotes that can relate to the just war.  Share our quotes.  

Write: Write at least 10 lines summarizing your ideas about just and unjust wars and what you would be willing to compromise about to avoid war.

Micro Perspective

Essential Question: What does war look like?

Brainstorm: Imagine a war zone.  What are the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, or feelings (touch) that you imagine?  

Group Reading: Let's read through the first few pages of The Things They Carried.  Read aloud; point out the sentence on page 3: 

“Because the nights were cold, and because the monsoons were wet, each carried a green plastic poncho that could be used as a raincoat or groundsheet or makeshift tent.” (p. 3)

• What do we learn in this sentence?

• What matters in this sentence?  

• What’s an example of how you could rewrite this sentence–better, worse, or indifferent?

As we read the rest of the chapter, be on the lookout for more sentences that create imagery and do heavy lifting.

Watch: Let's begin watching the first 10 minutes of the film Restrepo. The film gives us another example of what war looks like for the people actually fighting it.

Write: What do we need to understand about the soldiers lives and how their lives change as the war goes on. Questions

Ticket Out: “The Art of the Sentence”-- Write one beautiful sentence that helps us understand the perspective of soldiers either based on chapter of The Things They Carried and/or Restrepo. Write the sentence using this form:

“Because [O’Brien/filmmakers] use(s) the [phrase/sentence/visual/quote] _______________________, I think that war is _______________________ for soldiers.