The Things They Carried

Notes

The Things They Carried Notes (pdf)

The Things They Carried Reading Guide (pdf) (pdf) (pdf)

The Things They Carried Discussion Guide (Chapters 1-4)

The Things They Carried Discussion Guide (Chapters 5-10)

The Things They Carried Discussion Guide (Chapters 11-17)

The Things They Carried Discussion Guide (Chapters 18-22)

Lesson Plan Presentation (pdf)

Personal Narrative Activity

Personal Narrative Essay (pdf)

Personal Narrative Notes (pdf)

MLA Format (pdf)

Personal Narrative Rubric (pdf) Proficiency Scale (pdf)

Personal Narrative Rewrite Instructions (pdf)

Personal Narrative Examples (pdf)

Common App Website (web)

Common App Example (web)

AP Okefenokee Swamp – Setting Annotations (pdf)

AP Librarian and Mom Passage – Character Annotations (pdf)

NHS How To Tell Your Story (pdf)

War Poetry Activity

War Poetry TPFAST Analysis Activity (pdf)

The Things They Carried War Poems Full (pdf)

History of War Links

History Channel Vietnam in HD (web)

The Vietnam Tapes of Michael Baronowski (web) (10:50-13:40)

Impact of War Links

Washington Post How the VA Calculates War Injury Payments (image)

CNN The Fallout of War at Home (web)

NPR The Moral Injury of War (web)

The Wounded Platoon (web)

SOS: Signs of Suicide (pdf)

New York Times Wounds of the Drone Warrior (web)

Connections to Text Links

The Long Road to Forgiveness (web)

American Scholar Why We Fight (web)

Admiral William McRaven Commencement Address (web)

Evan Wright Generation Kill (web)

StoryCorp Interview with 9/11 Airline Ticket Rep Vaughn Alexx (web)

StoryCorp Interview with Sibling Survivors of Columbine (web)

Personal Narrative Resources

The Great Beaver Rescue Effort (web)

Rick Reilly “Getting a Second Wind” (web)

Bob Greene “Cut” (web)

Brian Doyle “The Praying Mantis Moment” (web)

Joe Posnanski “Hamilton” (pdf)

Patrick Mahomes NFL Draft Letter (pdf)

Steph Curry “Underrated” (pdf)

Zora Neale Hurston “How it Feels to be Colored Me” (web)