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Stevens' 9th Grade Honors
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Weekly Agenda April 12-16

MON'
OPTIC on image from Civil War
Review Break HW
-discussing the text
-rhetorical devices
Get Books?
Drafted and Goodbye Letter
-Journal #
HW Their Eyes Essay due tonight to turnitin.com

TUES
Background on the text
Reflect on Essay -Writing process
Memoir
-style and devices
HW Search for a fact about Vietnam (not Wikipedia)

WED
Platoon movie excerpt
-sensation of 'being' in Vietnam
K.W.(L.)
Geography Notes
Confirm dates for Practice AP
Read Chapter 1
HW What would you carry? Finish Chapter 1 and 3qs

THURS
Vocabulary List
-create concept circles
Conversations assignment
Multiple Choice Practice
-pair share
HW Read "Love", "Spin" and "Rainy River"
AND identify stylistic devices. Define ambiguity, ambivalence, and apathy. In what way do these ideas create a new sense of what it means to fight in war?

FRI
Platoon and Hamburger Hill movie excerpts
Read "How to Tell a True War Story"
-vocabulary
-quotations
-symbolism
Conversations #2
HW Look at Chapters "Enemies" and "Friends" and wrote a short paragraph for Journal # __ in which you discuss why O'Brien places these chapters together. Comment on the structure of the novel, the chronology, the juxtaposition of specific themes and stories.