NOTE: Due to scheduling sessions this week, this lesson was taught on TUESDAY for those of you in 7th period.

Questions from your reading ("How to Tell a True War Story") were due in class.
Your MEMORABILIA visual from the 1960's was also due.

There was a short lesson on the postmodern literary era and how the novel, The Things They Carried, is a postmodernist text. This will be on the test. If you missed class, be sure to get notes from Mrs. Evans.

Journal Entry #3:

What is courage? Having read about O’Brien’s definition, consider your own definition of courage. Give specific examples. Also define the OPPOSITE of courage, to clarify the boundaries of your idea. (Write for about 10 minutes.)

We read "Speaking of Courage" (chapter 15) in class and discussed it. Particularly, we focused on the dual imagery in the story--a flashback to the war and a post-war Fourth of July day. The repeated visuals reinforced the sense of isolation from ordinary life that Norman Bowker, the main character of this chapter felt. His repetitive driving around and around the lake shows how he is "stuck" and cannot re-enter daily life after his experiences in Vietnam.
"Speaking of Courage" demonstrates other facets of the courage theme the author, O'Brien, introduced in the chapter "On Rainy River."

HW: Read (or re-read, if we started it in class) "Notes"--chapter 16.