LAST WEEK WE BEGAN TO RESEARCH WAR from the American soldier's perspective. We began an HBO documentary entitled Wartorn, about the impact of war on American soldiers' mental and physical health and how their perspective of America changed upon returning home.

Monday

Illustration from Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five. — Illustration from Vonnegut's *Slaughterhouse Five.*

No school today for snow day.
HW: Remember to follow the reading schedule for your novel. You should circle vocabulary words, write questions, and annotate: What question about America does your author seek to answer, through the novel?

Tuesday

What is the American soldier's experience in war, and how does his view of America change upon returning from war? We will look at a few scenes from the first part of Full Metal Jacket and read the forth entry in the war packet, "The Rifleman's Creed."
HW: Read you novel.

Wednesday

Small group analysis of two early American poems. "Paul Revere's Ride" by Longfellow and Francis Scott Key's "Defence of Fort McHenry." What doe the speakers in these poems reveal about American attitudes toward war? About the role of soldiers in war?
HW: Finish annotating these poems tonight for homework.

Thursday

Today I will review the course offerings in English for senior year. We will then begin to muddle through Limon introduction to literature of war, with this question in hand: how do writer's portray war from the soldier's perspective? We will start this exercise, but will not finish it today. Or even this week.
HW: Read documents 5 and 6, by Vonnegut III, and Vonnegut Jr.

Friday

Meeting in the library to locate published poems by established authors on the your novel's theme. You will want to find five poems and have them read, annotated, and added to your noodle bib accounts by Monday.
HW: Reading your novel, and adding the poems to your noddle accounts.