Agenda  Chapter 6 Slaughterhouse Five Discussion  Group Essay  Read Chapter 7 Slaughterhouse Five & Come prepared with a printed/typed introduction for your group essay

Chapter 6  Billy wakes in the prison hospital and listens to Lazzaro telling him of his plans for sadistic revenge, which include his repeated vow to have Billy killed.  Billy has recorded a description of his own death in Chicago on February 13, 1976: He gives a speech, is shot, and “experiences death for a while.”  He then “swings back into life again,” in the prison hospital in In need of shoes, Billy acquires the silver boots used by the Cinderella character in the camp play.  Vonnegut seems to use the shoes as a symbol of innocence confronted by harsh reality. The American prisoners are then shipped in boxcars to Dresden and moved into a slaughterhouse.

Chapter 6 Discussion Questions  1. What is the source of the animal magnetism Billy feels in the prison hospital shed?  2. What does Lazzaro say is the sweetest thing in life? What story does he tell to prove his point?  3. What advice does Lazzaro give Billy?  4. How does Billy die?  5. What positive attributes of Dresden does the Englishman share with the American POWs?

Chapter 6 Discussion Questions  6. How is Edgar Derby elected head American?  7. To what does the author compare his first view of Dresden?  8. Describe the Americans’ arrival in Dresden.  9. Describe the Americans’ “home away from home.”

Group Essay  Make sure that you complete steps 1-2 in class and half of three by tomorrow!  Complete in a Google Document so that all students in the group can edit accordingly.  You MUST bring a copy of the working introduction to class tomorrow.  Type and print it.  Make sure that ALL group members have a copy they can write on for tomorrow.