lit luminary week 6

p. 70

"I had my m-16 and lobal has his and an m-79 grenade launcher. There were sandbags piled in front of the foxhole, with a place to shoot through. The perimeter of the camp was marked by intricate patterns of barbed wire barriers that had trip flares throughout."  

do you think they had there area on lockdown?

david week 6 connector

1. do you think that the soldiers in the book have more hope than the soldiers in real life?

2. how would you feel if you have lost a friend to the war?

3. is the vietnam war the same as the war that is going on now?

week 6 Connector

1.) how do you think of the war than and now?

2.) have you ever lost someone in the war?

3.) how do you think the soldiers felt when they kept watching their friends die?

Week 6: Discussion Director

1.) Have you ever or even known someone who acted tough or brave but are really scared inside?

2.) If you could tell Jenkins one thing when he was crying & afraid what would you say? 

3.) Would you want someone to send a personal letter if your loved one passed in a war?

blog post6 brett connector

How would you feel if you got seperated from your squad and you had to spend the night in a hole?

How is the vietnam war related to the iraq war?

week 6 connector

how does the war now relate to the war in 'nam?

have you ever lost a friend or family member in the war? If so, how did you feel?

how do you think perry felt when his leaders kept dieing and he had to write letters to their families telling them how they died in glory.

week 6 discussion director

1. How would you act if people were dying around you with the same chances to survive as yourself?

2. How hard do you think it would be to justify killing someone to save yourself?

3. Was your life worth more than the man you killed?

literary luminary yoo

when the arvn are telling their squad to go back to the village i thought it was good thinking and messed up to put their hands up because it was smart but they made the chopper take out their own team. they should have just gotten on together instead of fighting over it. why do you think the arvn did that?

week 5

-peewee acts tough but hes really scared, do you think people at school act tough sometimes because there not feeling tough inside?

-peewee doesn't exchange blood with the other soldier, do you think that's right?

-why do you think people do this?

wk 5 connector david

1. friendship is the biggest thing right now, why do you think that it is the biggest thing to have lots of friends. please explain.

2. Does this book portray an part of your life right now or back then?

3. what do you think the book has to do with our modern society?

The Connector :) Week 5 b!+ch3$

On page 42 Jenkins dies from a chest wound.

1.) What causes Jenkins chest wound?

2.) How do we honor fallen soldiers today?

3.) Have you ever lost someone? If so, how have you honored them?

Week 5 Discussion Director

* Why did peewee still continue to write to his ex girl who's already married?
* What do the people treat them so nicely?
* Perry's brothers birthday passed, how do you think his brother felt when he didn't hear from Perry that day?

week 5 discussion dir.

            why did peewee want perry to have the old coin?

             why was dungon so hard on the men?

             why was johnson in denial about brew?

week 5 literary luminary

202-210
I thought the gun fight on the hill was very interesting. when they were trying to make it up the hill shooting at the Cong and when they finally got to the top and there was three Cong's left and Captain Stewart shoot one of them in the head. Than as they were shooting down the hill Johnson and Perry got shoot as the other troops try to help there was to much fire they grabbed them and went back down the hill they came up on. Reasoning i thought i was interesting because two people got shoot.

what do  you think about this part?

week 4 connector

how would you feel if someone that you knew stepped on mine and got shrapnel?

why did the leader not care about perry's medical issues.

how would you feel if you were in the vietnam war with these guys and explain your answer?

Week 4 Literary Luminary (Mason)

pg: 161 paragraph 3

lieutenant gearhart set off a flare and exposed the whole squad when they were camped out in a ditch with no cover. the congs attacked and they held a good defense but one person died and the medic got hit.
my response to it was that it was surprising and i wasnt expecting that to happen. my question is did gearhart set off the flare?

week 4 lit luminary

page 170 paragraph 9
"i could still smell it was booze"
in a lot of military shows, and movies (mash) soldiers drink a lot.
i think they do this cause there scared
why do you think soldiers drink after war

david grecinger discusion director Wk.4

1. What do you think is going to happen next in the fallen angels book? is it going to be good or do you think that its going to be bad?

2. If you were a character in the Fallen Angels story how would you survive being in the Vietnam war knowing that an second you could be killed? Explain.

3. What do you think about Fallen Angels so far? Do you think its good or bad? What could help you like the story more?

week 4: discussion director

1.) Do you think people should have the option to enlist on their own or automatically be drafted without a choice? Explain and support your reasoning.

2.) Do you support the idea of the military randomly drawing names?

3.) Do you justify the age being 18 and being able to send people to fight in the war at that age?

page 7 paragraph 7

" You faggots Cant even line up straight." 

There's alot of offensive language used in the military. 

why you think these words & racial terms are used so often in the military?

page 60 paragraph 6

in this passage it says " I wanted to know how it felt to shoot at a cong. "
i think alot of kids think this way because of video games & movies.
do you think movies & video games influence  kids ?

weeeeek 3

1.  do you like this book
2.  what does kenny feel when his enemy is shot.
3.  how does his allies feel.

week 4 Literary Luminary

"I fell asleep thinking about what Johnson had said. Maybe the time had passed when nobody could be a good guy" -Perry

I wanted to highlight this passage and discuss what you think he meant by these words. Was he trying to point out that even when you yourself know your a good person yet nothing can really prove that you are? Tell me what you think his words mean but tell me in your own words.

Connector: 11-18-13

1.) Surviving is a huge part in this book. How does the main character try to stay alive?

2.) Have you ever had someone you loved go to war, if so how did that make you feel? If you haven't then tell how it would make you feel if you did.

3.) How did the Iraq help and hurt people? 

Week three literary luminary

well when Jamal, a medic, informs Richie that Captain Stewart has reported three kills for the patrol despite the fact that really only one enemy was killed. Richie wonders about the dead soldier’s family, his life, and his hopes for the future I dont really know the paragraph confused me let me know what you thought of it

week 3 connecter david grecinger

1). How does hope bring all of the soldiers together in the story?

2). How does your life reflect the live of the characters in the story so far?

3). How does the wars in modern times affect how we feel about the world today?

week3: literary luminary connector Brett burggraff

pg100. When they landed and had to carry all that ammo through the big thick tall grass, that souind's hard. Then doyle saying watching out for mines. Where were they going and what cut his hands?

Week 3 Discussion Director

1. Compare the story to the wars we have now.
2. Rewrite what you think Peewees life was before he joined the war.
3. Choose whether or not Peewee will live through the battles, Explain why you think that.

1) keenys brother had to go to war, Have you ever been close to someone who's had to  go to war?
2)have you known anyone that has been in vietnam?
3who do you think the war is h
hardest keenys brother or his family ?


yolo

Week 2 Connector Questions

1) where are those people trying to get out of ?
2) have you shot a gun?
3) should U.S. have a ban on guns?

literary luminary: questions

What is your favorite thing about this book so far?

1) what relative of Kenny goes to war?
2) What something you have in common with Kenny?
3)are you for or against war?

Week 2: Literary Luminary (David)

Page 42-43
I thought that this part was puzzling because why would you believe that body bags are for you?

What do you think would happen if the whole squad started thinking that there were a bunch of fresh body bags back at the base for them? Explain the significance of why the soldiers can't think that the body bags are for them.

week 2: literary luminary

page number:14

"I thought of writing Kenny. He would dig getting a letter from Nam. I remembered once he was involved with a pen-pal program and got a letter from some kid in Logan, West Virginia. He had looked at me with his wide, bright eyes and smiled like he couldn't believe the great thing that had happened to him."

Response: I thought this was cute how this soldier had a huge grin on his face because a little boy wrote him a letter and he finally had someone to write to.

week 2 connector

1.) if you where walking threw the woods on patrol  in nam what would you think after you saw someone you where just talking to get killed.

2.) have you ever just felt scared for no reason.

3.) what wars are going on today.

week 2 discussion director

Why do you think peewee recieves a letter from his girl friend to make him jealous?
What is your opinion on why he wrote about peewee instead of jenkin's death?
Why do you think the leader of their company captain stewart, want's to send them on dangerous mission's for selfish reasons.?

Week 2 Connector

• How can you connect the situation their in to certain problems within your life?

• What started the Vietnam war? (use Google)

• soldiers leave their family and loved ones behind just to sacrifice more or less their life for a country that probably wouldn't care they're gone. Why do you think they do this? 

Week 2 Literary Luminary

Page (up to 14)
He talks about raising money for his little brother before he leaves. He talks about it again when joining the army. Then when he becomes captain? His ideas are good but will he ever actually make the move to help his little brother? If he doesn't does that make him a bad person or just immature? Is it even his responsibility to help them after he is gone?

Literary Luminary (David)

Page 4-6
I am marking this event because it's amazing how many places they went to before they reached Tan-Son-Nhut, the republic of Vietnam. Massachusetts- Germany- Osaka- Japan- Tan Son NHut, Vietnam.

Why do you think they went to a bunch of different places instead of just a one flight trip?

- David G.

Literary Luminary

P.3 there looking for congs.

literary luminary

i wanna read this book because its about the Vietnam army and my grandpa was in that army.

is this book good?

Literary Luminary

One dude called the woman who cleaned their bunks a Vietcong.  He also kept calling her mama Cong.

page 10.

I was like okay then.

literary luminary
11/6

Page 10
"Chicago." Gates was lying on his back on his bunk. Anyways, this dude come into the poolroom, and he knowed he was a good pool shot, see? So he hustled this other dude into a pool game for twenty dollars and beat him."

I thought it was a good but sneaky two-faced way in hustling someone.
Question- Whats your opinion on the passage?

literary luminary

page 3 when they where all sitting around talking about nam.
how would you feel if you where in that situation.?

literalary luminary-

Pg3. I was confused when they said that the sucker's were coming , didnt know what that meant. I didnt know about what the congs were. I thought that it was weird to start a story off like that.

literary luminary

why do you think that the alpha company didn't care about Perry's medical profile?

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