Mon (Due: Read "The Things They Carried")

• Cultural Literacy
• Discussion of The Things They Carried
  

Tue (due: )

• Cultural Literacy
• Discussion of The Things They Carried
• Mr. Jaeger's demonstration of what soldiers carried
• What They Carried Worksheet

Wed (due: Read "On the Rainy River" )

• Cultural Literacy
• Reading time for On the Rainy River and discussion

Thu (due: )

Cultural Literacy

Free Reading

Fri (due:  Read "How to Tell a True War Story")

• work on Character analysis paper (due next Friday)
•  Discussion of On the Rainy River and How to Tell a True War Story
• take any untaken quizzes and note any upcoming expiration dates
• last week required  2 forum posts- (15 total)  Pride and Prejudice, The Things They Carried, or You Can't Take it With You
• make sure your blogs are done (below) Last Blog post: 6. Why is it nearly impossible for Elizabeth to turn down both Mr. Collins and Mr. Darcy in marriage, and why does she do it anyhow?
  

 BLOG POSTS LIST Blog Post:

1. How are men and women really different as shown in the texts?

OR How has marriage changed from the time of one of the texts until now? (texts are: Dinner Party, The Quiet Man, A Doll's House, and Too Soon a Woman)

2. Letter to a future spouse

3. Using the texts and your own experience, how can people feel trapped in a relationship and what can we do to avoid it?

OR Using the texts and your own experience, what role does money play in the decisions we make?

4.  Jury - Discuss the times (if ever) killing another person is justified and whether or not this is the case in the short story "A Jury of Her Peers"

5. Why are Jane Austen's characters interesting today even though she wrote the book around 200 years ago?

6.  Why is it nearly impossible for Elizabeth to turn down both Mr. Collins and Mr. Darcy in marriage, and why does she do it anyhow?