Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
AP English Language and Composition
Mastery Objectives:
SWBAT reflect upon creative elements and forms and respond in
a critical manner, and 2) identify specific textual evidence from
primary sources to support a personal response to a text.
AGENDA:
1. (3rd) In your reading circle, complete worksheet on
Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong from The
Things They Carried.
2. Analyze packet about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
(PTSD). What did you learn from reading this packet?
3. Through film clips, analyze another aspect of war:
coming home (“PTSD”) and its psychological effects
on the soldier and the people around them. Then
compare the trauma that modern-day warriors
suffer to Perry from In Cold Blood: did Perry
have PTSD? How about any characters from
Things They Carried? Any evidence?
HOMEWORK/UPCOMING DUE DATES:
 Read all of In Cold Blood by Friday, April 15.
 Read The Things They Carried by Friday, April 15.
 Next vocabulary assessment is this Friday.