Blog Prompt #2: War Stories

Spring 2015 Semester

DUE: Friday, 2/27/15, 11:59 p.m.

Vocabulary

Find three unfamiliar vocabulary words in your day-to-day reading. (Do NOT use our vocabulary lists or a dictionary site as a source) Use context clues to determine the meaning and post that process.

NEW THIS WEEK: Write an original sentence for each word. Please do not copy and paste a sentence from somewhere else. I WILL KNOW. If you are having trouble writing a sentence using the three new words, you may try the following instead:

• Go to Wordsinasentence.com and look up the word. (If that site doesn't have it, you can look up "use {insert word} in a sentence" in any search engine.
• Find an example sentence.
• "What impressed me most about the song was its juxtaposition of country and classic soul."
• Rewrite the sentence by replacing words with new words to create your own sentence.
• "What impressed the students most about the film was its juxtaposition of humor and violence."
• Write BOTH the example sentence and the new sentence in your blog post.

ALSO

Create a hyperlink, using the "Link" function in Blogger for each word to an online dictionary entry for that word.

Reflection Post

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

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

• 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.

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.

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