"War Stories" (Week of Feb. 8, 2011)

Vocabulary

Find three unfamiliar vocabulary words in your day to day reading. (Do NOT use our vocabulary book or a dictionary site as a source) Use context clues to determine the meaning and post that process, along with an original sentence for each word on your blog.

Time Management

Post your Google calendar, with any important schedule items and your study plan. Also post a To Do list for the day of your top three priority items.

Reflection Post

Author Tim O'Brien, known for his writings about the Vietnam War, states:

War stories, like any good story, are finally about the human heart.  About the choices we make, or fail to make.  The forfeitures in our lives.  Stories are to console and to inspire and to help us heal... And a good war story, in my opinion, is a story that strikes you as important, not for war content, but for its heart content.

Your reflection post assignment is as follows:

• Reflect on a story that made an impact on your life and tell why

OR

• Think of an event in your life and how you would share that story with somebody--not in a way that shared all the facts, but in a way that would speak to the human heart.

Remember that your post should be a minimum of 250 words.