Homework for Thursday, 11.15.

- The Things You Carry -

1. Debriefing today's in-class activity .
You can disregard the "Think-Pair-Share" debrief given on today's handout. Instead, answer the following two questions in your notebook:

• How can today's in-class activity serve as a metaphor for the text
• How would the activity had been different if you were under the stress of war?
  

2. Writing prompt.
In one typed, double-spaced page, write a "The Things They Carry"-like piece that address the following questions:

• What do you “carry?”
• What’s in your backpack?

Requirements:

• One typed, double-spaced page, submitted by email or to mamabear server faculty dropbox before class.
• Organize your writing intentionally in a list format, as O’ Brien does in the title piece.
• Like O’ Brien, include:
• items of necessity, convenience, and sentimental value.
• items that are both literal (things) and figurative (ideas, emotional “baggage”).
• the concept of weight, again, both literally (pounds, ounces, etc.) and figuratively (grief, burden).