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1. Introduction of Guests and an Overview of the ideas of storytelling, meta-fiction, tone and mood) (Turtola)
2. Short video on a student interview with a Vietnam veteran.
3. Storytelling Sessions- The guests give presentations and tell stories about their lives.

Doyle

Nelson

Mannion

4. Audio book presentation and then a whole group discussion on some questions:

Can we tell how a person feels about something by the way they tell a story?

Is this novel a book about war or something else?

5. Round table discussions by assigned groups. Each group is assigned a chapter from the novel and will sit together at round tables throughout the morning.

Review the performance task.

Summarize plots and characters in the stories told today and in the book.

Explain themes in the stories.

analysis of style, tone and mood.

informational gathering of details (interviews with the guests). The guests will move from table to table and answer students' questions.

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Overview The award-winning author of nine works of fiction and a former reporter for The Washington Post, Tim O'Brien had what some would call a typical 1950s American childhood in rural Minnesota before he was sent to fight in Vietnam as a foot soldier in 1969.

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Vietnam Meal Combat Individual C Ration Spaghetti Vintage MRE

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New Jersey Vietnam Veterans ' Memorial Foundation

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The Things They Carried - A Vietnam Veteran's Experience

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(Edited For Youtube) A young high school girl (Rebecca Summer) is assigned a project by her English teacher, to interview an old Vietnam War Veteran (Jim Beckett). Although she is reluctant (expressed to her friend Courtney Crosson), she pushes herself to interview him.