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1. The Agenda: 1-25 min: Final Review of Chapters (10 min ea.) 25-50 min: TTTC Study Guide in small groups. 50-70 min: Vocabulary 13-14 Review 70-95 min: Windows v. Walls Review!
2. The ONLY Comments you can write on your first read through Read the CH. aloud, pausing ONLY to write: “awk” next to awkward phrases “✔” next to places that flow logically/smoothly “REP” next to sections that are repetitive, and “?” next to confusing sentences/sections. AFTER READING: Be sure to offer suggestions for clarification for any areas marked with a question mark! Talk about how you can vary the syntax—adding in rhetorical questions, short declarative sentences, or stylistic series—to give the paper more color and voice!
3. Reminder of the Reflection: Suggested Organization for the 1.5 Pages Four Body paragraphs: Intro (hook, context, thesis)—use your war theme as your thesis! Two Body Paragraphs: Each body paragraph analyzes two different devices you implemented to imitate O’Brien’s style. Conclusion—could discuss the relevancy/importance of understanding the soldier’s experience in war.
4. Remember to upload to turnitin.com!
5. Feedback on TTTC Lit. A Quizzes! GREAT job with quotation integration! Just remember that when you grammatically make a quotation a part of your sentence, you don’t need to comma! (Ex: O’Brien watched the girl “dancing barefoot.”) Your themes, on a whole, are too vague. They are either lacking rationales, or do not clearly connect to your analysis of the literary device. Regarding literary devices: when you analyze diction, you must explicitly list the words you are analyzing. Also, let’s avoid analyzing imagery; too often this leads you down the path of plot summary/paraphrase in place of analysis.
6. Review for TTTC Section of the Unit Test!

7. Vocabulary 13& 14:Take out for Vocabulary Packets!

8. Vocab 13: Acquiesce To consent, to comply passively or without protest. “Oh, I guess…” Motion: shrug while you say the word, as if you agree but only passively
9. Cerebral of or pertaining to the brain or cerebrum; appealing to or marked by the working of intellect rather than instinct or intuition Motion: point to brain
10. Incendiary Causing fire; tending to enflame or agitate. Incinerate = incendiary The incense turned out to be more incendiary than the hippies knew! Their house burned down when they left some burning.
11. Levity A state or quality of being light; a light manner Levity = levitate Oskar doesn’t take anything serious; he even spoke with levity about Sweden’s war-ridden past. Levity
12. Nefarious Extremely wicked or infamous; evil The villain, Nefarious, is never fair. It’s ridiculous! The nefarious Ms. Bohls assigned the students a twenty-page research paper—due Friday.
13. Peruse To read or examine with thoroughness While waiting in line at the grocery store, Ms. Bohls likes to carefully peruse the tabloids/celebrity magazines for bad grammar—sometimes correcting the errors with her purple pen.
14. Misanthropy Hatred, distrust, or dislike of mankind. Iago could be considered a misanthrope because, as the play advances, his violence and deceit have no clear object other than to ruin everyone else in the cast.
15. Choose Three and Create Memory Aids Eschew Anthropology Anthropomorphism Metaphysics Metacognition Precursor Purport
16. Belie (v.) To give a false impression; to misrepresent Gatsby—with his stories of Oxford and fake inheritance and “old sport”—belies the shadowy truth of his new money. “be” + [a] “lie”
17. Decimate (v.) To kill off a large proportion of a group; to inflict so much damage that it is beyond repair During the search and destroy mission of My Lai, the American soldiers decimated the village, killing, crushing, burning any and everything in their path. Decimate = destroy + incinerate
18. Eclectic (adj.) Drawn from many sources (of taste, opinion, belief, etc.) In college, Ms. Bohls directed a music group that performed an eclectic mix of musical genres from blue grass and spirituals to pop and hip-hop. Eclectic = E[xciting] + collect[tion]
19. Elicit (v.) To bring out; to evoke; to call forth a reaction The use of the n-word in both Huck Finn and in many rap songs elicits a strong reaction from audiences; the word makes many extremely uncomfortable.
20. Foible (n) Small flaw, imperfection or weakness in character Ms. Bohls’sfoible is dogs. She can’t help it. Every time she sees a dog, her heart melts. This foible is how she foolishly adopted Levi, her dog.
21. Incumbent (adj./n.) Lying, leaning or resting on something else; obligatory; currently holding a specific office Obama, the incumbent candidate, ran for reelection in 2012. It is incumbent upon us all to make this world a better place!
22. Intrinsic (adj.) Of or pertaining to the essential nature of a person or thing; innate Wakeboarding was an intrinsic part of Ms. Bohls’s being back in Austin. She is now trying to make surfing a Cali substitute. The intrinsic value of … is …?
23. Morass (n) An area of low-lying, soggy ground; something that hinders, engulfs, or overwhelms This field is a mud pit! It is a soggy morass. We need mo’ grass. Memory aid?
24. Perfunctory (adj.) Done as a duty or a routine, but without much care or interest; done without thought. Every morning, Ms. Bohls performs perfunctory duties such as making coffee and driving 17 from Santa Cruz without thinking—much.
25. Sentient (adj.) Having the power of perception by the senses; able to perceive the senses; conscious There are some days, when the class isn’t speaking at all and just stares numbly back at Ms. Bohls, that she wonders if they are sentient beings. Sentient = do you have sentiments? Do you have senses?
26. Steadfast (adj.) Fixed or unchanging; steady; firmly loyal or constant One of the reasons Ms. Bohls loves dogs is that they are steadfast; their love and loyalty is steady and unchanging. Dogs are steadfast.
27. Reminder for Everything you need next class! Final Draft of Chapter (3) and Reflection (1.5) Complete Vocabulary 13-14 Packets TTTC Passage Journals Art Analysis Warm-ups

28. Whiteboard Duels! The Things They Carried & Vocab.Test Review

29. You and your partner will need: One mini white board One marker One eraser Your The Things They Carried books
30. Question 1 QUESTION: Why does O’Brien want to get back at Jorgenson (“The Ghost Soldiers”)? ANSWER: Jorgenson was too afraid to give him medical care on the battle field.
31. Question 2 QUESTION: Tim O’Brien retells (repeats) certain stories in order to: A. Contrast them with other events. B. Respond to a reaction from his audience. C. Approach the truth of the story in a different way. D. All of the above. ANSWER: C. Approach the truth of the story in a different way.
32. Question 3 QUESTION: Why does Tim O’Brien decide to go to war rather than to flee to Canada (“On the Rainy River”)? ANSWER: He knows it is his duty, and he is too embarrassed to let down his family
33. Question 4 QUESTION: Why does Curt Lemon have a healthy tooth pulled out by the dentist (“The Dentist”)? ANSWER: To prove he is not afraid of the dentist.
34. Question 5 “On ambush, curled in the dark, you fight for control. Not too much fidgeting… It all swirls together, clichés mixing with your own emotions, and in the end you can’t tell one from the other” (206). QUESTION: The primary purpose of second person perspective in the passage above is to… ANSWER: To create for the reader the feeling of confusion and frustration from losing control of one’s own emotions when on ambush
35. Question 6 QUESTION: Name at least 2 features of what the narrator calls “a true war story.” ANSWER: never moral, difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen, cannot be believed, makes the stomach believe, never absolutely true, never has a point, the questions you ask, never about war
36. Question 7 QUESTION: What is the purpose of catalog in the chapter “The Things They Carried”? ANSWER: To create the truth of war that soldiers must endure heavy emotional (grief, fear, love, shame) and physical (fatigues, guns, canteens) burdens
37. Question 8 QUESTION: What is the difference between catalog and asyndeton? ANSWER: Catalog includes an “and” before the last item in the list, asyndeton has NO conjunctions (like “and”) AT ALL! ANYWHERE IN THE LIST!
38. Question 9 QUESTION: What is the purpose of disjointed text? ANSWER: To mimic the randomness of human memory, to mimic the fragmented (half or brief) memories that soldiers experience after the war
39. Question 10 “Vietnam had the effect of a powerful drug: that mix of unnamed terror and unnamed pleasure that comes as the needle slips in and you know you’re risking something” (114). QUESTION: The passage above is a metaphor comparing what to what? What is gained/better understood through this comparison? ANSWER: The effect the Vietnam War had on many soldiers who were “consumed” by it, including Mary Anne
40. Ready for Windows vs. Walls for Vocab.? Daniella has a very ________ taste in fashion; some days she looks Glam-inspired and other days she looks Bohemian. Eclectic Many students would cringe at the thought of painting themselves green and dancing in front of the whole school, but for Clark, it is just a ______ part of being a ____ and loyal member of the Rallies Committee. Perfunctory … steadfast
41. Many students felt like Huck Finn was a _____ to their love of literature; the only reaction the text _____ from the students was that of confusion and boredom. Morass… elicit Raj’s happiness is ______ on his ability to play oboe in college; he feels that the oboe is a(n) ______ part of his being. Incumbent… intrinsic Andy’s football-player exterior and ability to _____ any offense with his powerful tackle ____ his truly sensitive and thoughtful interior. Decimate… belie
42. Vocab 13 After reading Cannery Row, Ethan began a(n) ______ critique of Capitalism, calling it a dehumanizing, greedy machine. Incendiary Rio _______ Texas A&M’s website, carefully scanning the pages looking for the reason Ms. Bohls thinks Aggies are dumb. Perused When Ms. Bohls suddenly ________ to her students pleas to cancel the test, her students were shocked at her consent; usually she loved sticking to anything that caused them pain. Acquiesced
43. Just kidding: Ms. Bohls is way too ______, ____, and cold-hearted to give up the chance to make her students suffer through more vocabulary! Misanthropic, nefarious Nathan loves his class The History of Film; _____ or thought-provoking intellectual films are his favorite. Cerebral