MONDAY MAY 12

Quiz and Review

TODAYS GOALS
Ace the quiz.

Review all the chapters that you were quizzed on today by using
the CEW formula (well be working more with this formula up
until your junior year is over).
Work individually and in group on your argumentative writing
skills.
CHAPTER REVIEW ASSIGNMENT
GUIDELINES
Everyone will:
-First: Find two quotes that best explain the
theme, conflict, or big idea, of the assigned
chapter. Use resources, book and web and
otherwise, to supplement writing.
-Second: Write a claim about the quotes. What
insight do they lend to the chapter? Dont
summarize. Dont make a point about the plot
that is obviously stated.
-Third: Warrant every quote. Explain why the
quote is significant. Dont recite plot. Explain
how the language shows us something new or
significant about the novel. Explain the
authors intent.
-Once the group is finished, you will break up
and pair with members from other groups to
fill out your review and talk about the novel.


CHAPTER GROUPS
1.The Dentist
2.Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong
3.Stockings
4.Church
5.The Man I Killed
6.Ambush

*I know the numbers wont be even for every
group. Do the best you can.
EXAMPLE
Tim OBrien contrasts multiple metaphors to emphasize that a true war story is also a universal
human story. OBrien is being literal when he writes that in the enda true war story is never
about war. He says this because OBrien an author who has published multiple novels about
the Vietnam War views war as an experience that contains the universal elements of human
experience. We see this philosophy at work when he writes, [w]ar is hell, but thats not the half
of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and
holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. The staccato rhythm of the final clause
beats on as if OBrien could continue talking about what war is forever. Indeed, it seems that he
could. For OBrien, [w]ar is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you
a man; war makes you dead. And these sentences, split in half by a semi-colon, are meant to
represent the full circle of experience: the simultaneous comparison of thrilling and drudgery
reveals that war cannot be summarized by a simple expression because its boundaries of
experience contain all the elements of life.


CLAIM: Tim OBrien contrasts multiple metaphors to emphasize that a
true war story is also a universal human story.
Whats the adjective in the message part of the formula? How
does it enhance my claim?

As you work today, make sure to pay attention to adjectives that
help define your story.



-First: Find two quotes that best explain the
theme, conflict, or big idea, of the assigned
chapter. Use resources, book and web and
otherwise, to supplement writing. What
adjectives describe your chapter?
-Second: Write a claim about the quotes. What
insight do they lend to the chapter? Dont
summarize. Dont make a point about the plot
that is obviously stated.
-Third: Warrant every quote. Explain why the
quote is significant. Dont recite plot. Explain
how the language shows us something new or
significant about the novel. Explain the
authors intent.
-Once the group is finished, you will break up
and pair with members from other groups to
fill out your review and talk about the novel.


CHAPTER GROUPS
1.The Dentist
2.Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong
3.Stockings
4.Church
5.The Man I Killed
6.Ambush

*I know the numbers wont be even for every
group. Do the best you can.
A DAY
CEW Skills/Review
GROUP WORK PREP
Return to the groups you were in yesterday. Im going to
go around and check individual claim statements and offer
feedback while you continue to work on your warrants.

If you were gone yesterday, you need to take the quiz. If
you dont take the quiz today, you will receive a 0 for the
score.
GOALS
Finish CEW review in group
Get personal feedback on writing process
Do a little research and begin The Fog of War.
THE FOG OF WAR PHILOSOPHY
Write these down in the left margin of your notebook. Pay attention for these
ideas, and explain what McNamara thinks of them.
1. Empathize with your enemy
2. Rationality will not save us.
3. There's something beyond one's self.
4. Maximize efficiency.
5. Proportionality should be a guideline in war.
6. Get the data.
7. Belief and seeing are both often wrong.
8. Be prepared to reexamine your reasoning.
9. In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil.
10. Never say never.
11. You can't change human nature.