Week of 5-16-10 Lit 12 Lesson Plans

Mon (Due: )

• Cultural Literacy
• Survival Game
• Read "A Secret for Two"

Tue (due:  )

• Cultural Literacy
• Survival Game
• War by Luigi Pirandello

Wed (due: Top 5 stories of all time; getting over the wall)

• Cultural Literacy
• Survival Game
• Your top 5 stories of all time and why

Thu (due: finish The Things They Carried

• Cultural Literacy
• Free Reading
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Fri (due: see below  )

• Work on final compare / contrast paper
  
• take any untaken quizzes and note any upcoming expiration dates
• Computers to work on 2 forum posts- (23 total)
• Blog Post: #9, 10, and 11 In each, discuss a chapter from The Things They carried. Talk about lasting imagery, important themes, character analysis, friendship, war, or anything else from the chapter representing more than just a summary... discuss what you think (comlpete thoughts). List of stories:

The Things They Carried

On the Rainy River

How to Tell a True War Story

The MAn I Killed

Ambush

Speaking of COurage

Field Trip

 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?

7. If you had 50-100 pounds of stuff that you HAD to carry with you in a war, what other item(s) would you take just for you and why? ........ AND/OR If the world was about to end, what would you save if you could save enough to stick in a backpack (why)?

8. Talk about the best story about war you've ever heard and whether or not it's true

9, 10, and 11  Discuss a chapter from The Things They carried. Talk about lasting imagery, important themes, character analysis, friendship, war, or anything else from the chapter representing more than just a summary