April 2 & 3, 2025

Agenda

1. Starter: 4/2 & 4/3

   • Take the Panorama Survey. The access code is your student ID.

2. Take notes! TTTC: Vignette #1 Notes

3. View The Lunch Scene from The Breakfast Club and contribute to the Padlet.

   • What can we infer about each character based on what they brought for lunch?

   • What about how they react to each others’ lunches?

   • Contribute to the Padlet.

4. Warm-Up: Things You Carry

   • PROMPT: Write down everything and anything you can think of that you are carrying with you today. 

   • What inferences would someone make about you based on your list? 

   • What items on your list might give someone the wrong impression without context or background?

   • What could you add to the list that would symbolically say more about you (even if you aren’t actually carrying it right now)?

5. Assignment: TTTC: Vignette #1

   • Reading: The Things They Carried: “The Things They Carried”

   • Assignment: Vignette 1 Group Assignment

     • While we read:

• Listen for your group's character and take notes on the scratch paper at your table. Take notes on:

  • A list of what the character carries

  • The meaning of their name (you may need to consult Google after we finish reading the chapter)

  • Any quotes (with page numbers!) that reveal something about the character indirectly: AKA indirect characterization

• Requirements

  • 10 annotations PER PERSON

    • Minimum of 1 from each category

    • Categories:

      • Things your character carries (emotionally + physically)

      • Meaning of name

      • Direct quotes about indirect characterization

• How I would break it down:

  • 1-2 people make a list of 5 items every soldier carries

  • 1 person makes a list of 5 items your assigned character physically carries

  • 1-2 people make a list of 5 items your assigned character emotionally carries

  • 1 annotation about your assigned character’s name

  • 4 direct quotes about indirect characterization

• After we read:

  • Compare your list to the list on the graphic organizer.

  • Identify what each item from the list symbolizes about the character's personality, values, beliefs, or worldview.

  • Record any quotes (cited in MLA) and write 2-3 sentences of analysis for these quotes analyzing what they indirectly reveal about the character's personality, values, beliefs, or worldview.

• Audiobook: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

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*Lesson plan is the intellectual property of C. Stephens.