Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Good morning, English 11! Good morning! Please clear off your desks, so your attention is focused on our guest speaker.

The Things They Carried Your HW was to read to p. 123. Please be done by tomorrow. Finish at home if needed. “The Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” is a great story and “Stockings” and “Church” are VERY short.

The Things They Carried Remember to complete this 3-COLUMN LIST. Write passages that describe Mary Anne “before” and “after”. Mary Anne BEFORE AFTER Clothing Personality Relationship w/Fossie Hygiene Eyes (p. 96) (p. 106)

Guest Speaker Please welcome Mr. Olson, a former Osseo Senior High English teacher, Vietnam Veteran, author of Boomer, and all-around nice guy. If you have questions as Mr. Olson speaks, please raise your hand and wait to be called on.

The Things They Carried What lens is this? What had happened between them, Rat said, nobody ever knew for sure. But in the mess hall that evening it was clear that an accommodation had been reached. Or more likely, he said, it was a case of setting down some new rules. Mary Anne’s hair was freshly shampooed. She wore a white blouse, a navy blue skirt, a pair of plain black flats. Over dinner she kept her eyes down… - p. 103

The Things They Carried What is O’Brien getting at with these quotations? …the way she looked, Mary Anne made you think about those girls back home, how clean and innocent they all are… – p. 113 What happened to her, Rat said, was what happened to all of them. You come over clean and you get dirty and then afterward it’s never the same. – p. 114

The Things They Carried For Chapters 10 & 11 – “Stockings” and “Church”, What do they have in common? Why did O’Brien place them next to each other in the novel?