Today in class, we worked in groups to complete this CHART that helped us to analyze President Kennedy's vision of America's role in the world and to judge his responses to major events and conflicts during his administration, including The Bay of Pigs, The Berlin Wall, The Cuban Missile Crisis, and The Space Race. You can find the description of those events HERE.
During the second part of class, we began by brainstorming a list of "things that we carry" and spent some time describing those in our notebooks and considering why we carry them. Then, after numbering the chapters in the table of contents, we listened to the first thirteen pages of the first chapter of the novel, "The Things They Carried". We chose a few items that the author listed as things that the characters carried to discuss. We also talked about the setting and tried to identify words to describe it. We also noted that we should try to keep track of the characters and to pay attention to a timeline-that the book doesn't move in a straight line.
We finished our initial look at the novel by making some comparisons between the list of things that we carry and the the things that the characters in the novel carried, trying to identify their similarities and differences.
The new calendar is posted in the tab above. As you read the novel, this GLOSSARY will be helpful.
