November 29, 2016 - Tuesday

Class Work

1. Finish the wall presentations - last day.
2. Begin In the Time of the Butterflies.

Questions to answer:

1. At the beginning of the movie, where do the Mirabal sisters go? Who comes to visit?
2. What does Anita tell Minerva about Trujillo? What happened to Anita?
3. How many years did the girls spend at school?
4. What does Minerva want to study at the University?
5. What book does Leo give Minerva to read?
6. Why does Trujillo kill the black Haitians?
7. For what is Leo fighting?
8. How many of Leo’s  friends have disappeared?
9. To where are Minerva, her sisters and father invited?
10. What do Trujillo and Minerva talk about as they dance?
11. What does Minerva have to do to help her father? What does Minerva win?
12. What happened to Señor Mirabal? Why?


3. Be sure you have finished reading "The Things They Carried" by Thursday. You need to be ready for a class activity. http://pages.uoregon.edu/eherman/teaching/texts/OBrien_TheThingsTheyCarried.pdf

Here are the characters. List what each carried - physically and emotionally.

Jimmy Cross – field commander

Henry Dubbins – big man – big guns

Dave Jensen

Ted Lavender - tranquilizers

Pat Kiley- medic

Kiowa

Michael Sanders – you win some you loose some and sometimes you take a rain check

Lee Struck

Norman Bowker

Exam notes:
Our exam is Thursday, December 15, 2016.

AM Class: 8:00-9:50.
PM Class: 12:00-1:50

You MUST be present on exam day.