Week’s Agenda: • Monday- presentation on pages 149-172 • Tuesday- Literature Circle Discussion (pages 173-

206)• Wednesday- presentation on pages 173-206• Thursday- Literature Circle Discussion (pages 207-

233) • Friday- Vocab Quiz, presentation on pages 207-233

No article of the week this week and everyone gets a 15/15 on it! Happy Holidays

Final Assessment: The Things They Carried

• Choose from 7 options• All options require examples from multiple chapters

in the novel (minimum 3 different chapters!) • Rough Draft due 01/01 on turnitin.com by midnight

~25 points TEST GRADE– Graded on completion (3-5 paragraphs, intext citations/at

least 3 examples from text) • Final Draft due 01/03 on turnitin.com by midnight

~50 points TEST GRADE– Grade on focus, content, style, organization, and

conventions (including format!)

Requirements:

• Thesis!! –What is the point you are trying to make…

this thesis should read like a research paper.– ie. In the novel, The Things They Carried,

O’Brien has a very unique perspective on story telling and he showcases this perspective through multiple characters and stories where he compares the “happening-truth” to the “story-truth”.

Requirements (cont’d)• A BRIEF synopsis of the stories you are discussing

(1-2 sentence summary of the chapter you are using for an example)

• An analysis of the chapter/character supported by an direct example from the story using in-text citation! – O’Brien realizes that he is alone without his best friend

Kiowa. “He had lost everything. He remembered” (164). • 1 ½-2 pages in length (5 paragraph structure)• Typed 12 font, double spaced, 1 inch margin• Original Title (will be docked 5 points!)