SENIORS: Homework and Week of 11-11

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The nonfiction book assignment is now due Thursday, 11-14.

For Tuesday's class, 11-12, you must read the selection from The Things They Carried that is in your text book. I have attached a file of this at Studywiz, too. If you use the Studywiz file, read the first story, also called "The Things They Carried," up to "On the Rainy River," only pages 1-10.

For two years, I have taught this story on Veteran's Day (11-11), but I'd like to do some work with your dialogues on Monday in class and prep you some for The Things They Carried. You can read it this weekend without the prep; if you do, focus on setting (natural surroundings, man made objects, cultural-political, social, etc. conditions) and description (figures of speech, concrete details, sensory images, richly connotative words).