08-31-12 Period 5

• SAT lesson 1- 
• Check out books.
• Exercises due next Friday.
• Quiz next Friday.
• Background on Sniper author, read Sniper (annotations, relate to question, 3 higher level thinking questions)
• Next Wednesday assigned memoir due Friday but you can start early.
• We got handouts in class.
• Kind of memoirs.
• How to construct a memoir.
• Rubric.
• 5 memoirs will have to tie to a similar theme so use ones that can link.
• Tuesday MAP testing in library/computer lab.
• Look at a picture online of a man's hand in the middle of a half-falling row of dominoes.
• Feedback:
• When your life is falling down, literature can stop the process because it can show us what we should be doing or shouldn't be doing as a society or person.
• Literature can motivate us to stand up for what we know is right because there is one hand among all of the dominoes.
• When Jack was burning forest and the man in the ship came, he stopped the barbarism. There can be someone to say STOP. 
• The domino closest to the hand is the one holding everyone up so it is supporting the other "people".
• Google Liam O'flahrety (author of Sniper)
• Feedback:
• He abandoned training for Priesthood and fought in WWII may have influenced him.
• He was wounded in war and went crazy do to shell shock.
• He was interested in communism as a schoolboy.
• He was Irish which may have influenced his views and beliefs.
• He used psychology violent satyrs and dark themes in his stories.
• He grew up in a poor home which gave him a different perspective.
• He is a wanderer and traveled the world. If he wasn't secure in one place he may be insecure and scared which relate to his dark themes.
• We started to read and annotate Sniper for the rest of class.
• TGIF!