b.+Project+Schedule,+Unit+Worksheets,+and+Wiki+Questions

Here is another copy of the student calendar for this unit

Character Chart Worksheet:

Dichotomy Chart Worksheet:

===Wiki Questions: These will be starting off points for discussion online and in the Socratic Seminar. Students must answer at least TWO topic questions before each Socratic Seminar in a well-thought out paragraph (to be posted at the class wiki site). Students can answer more if they desire to prepare for the Seminar if they so desire. Students must also answer at least one classmate before the Socratic Seminar date. As the unit progresses, students will add their own wonderings to the class wiki and incorporate them into the discussion.===

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--The author gives detailed lists of the items that the soldiers carry, as well the emotions and personal experiences they hold within themselves as well. How does O'Brien use diction in other ways to convey the feeling of weight or pressure? (physically, mentally, and emotionally?) ======

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-- Jimmy, speaking of Martha, makes the comment, "there were things about her he would never know." What role does unspoken meaning or silenced experience play in this chapter? What are its effects on the characters? What language does O'Brien use to convey these effects? ======

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--"And right then I submitted. I would go to the war--I would kill and maybe die--because i was embarrassed not to." How does this quote demonstrate the obligation that O'Brien feels? Who or what is he obligated to? ======

--Should women be included in the draft?
--Many people are affected by war, not just the men fighting overseas. How do you feel experiencing this story as a reader? As an American? As a man or woman? As a child? As a voting member of our society? Are there other points of view you have?

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--"Norman did not experience a failure of nerve that night. He did not freeze up or lose the Silver Star for valor. That part of the story is my own." How did this change your feelings about the story? ======

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--O’Brien often plays with the motif of listening. Do you think this is unique to his story and the time period? Or do you feel there is still a significance to the presence – or lack thereof – of listening today? ======

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--In //Notes//, O'Brien discusses some of his other works yet he claims //this// work is true. Do you think his former works are false? Do you think this one is false? Why do you think O'Brien continually tells war stories, particularly if they take on different forms?====== --How does this portfion of the story relate to the first part of the text? Do you notice any shifts, continuing elements, devices used, characters discussed, etc? What is the effect of those similarities or differences?

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--Do you think there is a shift in Tim O'Brien's presence in the novel (his character, his voice, the story he tells, etc) from the beginning to the end? What do you think is the reason for this change? Or if you do not think there is a change, do you feel there should have been one?======

--Does going to war always turn a boy into a man?
--Do you like the way O'Brien ends his story?