Friday, Dec. 19 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Autobiographies vs. Short Stories from personal experience (Fictional Autobiographies): talk about your answer in WN from Wednesday

•Take out a sheet of paper.  Make two columns, one for LITERAL the other for FIGURATIVE, as we read, fill this out

•Read “TTTC”

•Writing based on page 20 quotes

•“They were afraid of dying but they were even more afraid to show it” (O’Brien 20).

•“They used a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness” (O’Brien 20).

•“It wasn’t cruelty, just stage presence. They were actors” (O’Brien 20).

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•“They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die…the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight” (O’Brien 21).

•Tangible –can be felt, touched

•In = not