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Archive for October, 2008

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

Posted by lev2000 on 28th October 2008

View the video below. This will offer perspective as an partner with The Things They Carried.

Answer the following in the space provided:

How does this video compliment TTTC?
What does the real soldier perspective do for you as a learner?
Compare coverage of war today to coverage of the Vietnam war….what similarities and differences do you notice?

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Check Point #1

Posted by lev2000 on 3rd October 2008

Comp:
On your blog you must have completed the following to earn a passing grade for this assignment:
*theme (your design)
*About page
*Video embedded
*Personal narrative sensory tour

Lit:

On your blog you must have completed the following to earn a passing grade for this assignment:
*theme (your design)
*About page
*inspirational video embedded with question or comment
*Independent reading novel introduction
*”Where are you going, Where have you been” repsonse

Your mission today:
1. View your peer’s inspirational videos and reply to the prompt or question attached to each.
2. Comp: Consider what you’ve eaten for fast food in the past few weeks. What have you learned from reading Fast Food Nation or how has your perspective been “enhanced?” Be prepared to share how the potato industry had changed in the last 25 years and explain exactly why the fries taste so good.

Wanna watch the trailer for inspiration again?

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