1. Warm up, 9/27
Describe in your own words what is meant by using different lenses to understand a situation?
What, if anything, do you know about literary critical theories?

2. Learning Targets
I can distinguish between the different types of literary criticism.
I can apply a selected literary theory to one of O’Brien’s vignettes as a group.
I can apply a different literary theory to another of O’Brien’s vignettes independently.

3. Literary Criticism Overview
Biographical
Historical
Reader Response
Psychological
Mythological or Archetypal
Formalist
Marxist
Feminist

4. Group Work Break into small groups. Reread “Enemies.”
Read over the definition of your assigned literary theory, and then,
Answer the associated guiding questions in bullet/list format.

5. Independent Work Now, reread “Friends.”
Complete the quick write using the information about the critical theory you’ve been assigned as a guide. This quick write is due at the end of class.

6. Homework
words of a college admissions essay/personal statement, typed and printed out, due on Tomorrow, 9/28
Read “Stockings,” “Church,” “The Man I Killed,” and “Ambush” and notes (1. In “The Man I Killed,” how does the narrator empathize with the dead VC soldier? What kind of man does the narrator imagine the dead man was? Be specific. Who does the dead man remind you of? 2. How is the story different in “Ambush”? Why do you think O’Brien retells the story differently? 3. What is the significance of the last line of “Ambush”? What happens here?) Due Monday, 10/3