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Discussing "The Things They Carried"

11th-graders in Judy Butterfield's English 3 Honors: American Literature course engage in collaborative learning as they work in small groups to develop two discussion questions based on two chapters of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried. After sharing their questions with the class on the whiteboard, each student voted for a question they felt would lead to the richest discussion before engaging in that discussion.
In American Literature Honors students examine, explore, and add to a chorus of American voices. Through close reading and discussion of American voices across time, as well as refinement of their own unique voices, students will critically engage with many essential questions that lie at the heart of American literature, such as: How do stories and myths work to shape American memory, imagination, and identity? How are concepts of race, gender, class, religion, family, and home constructed in literature? How do these concepts shape us? How does one negotiate and communicate one’s relationship to place and history? What is the American Dream and how does it limit or expand one’s sense of possibility?
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