Friday, 01/20/12

ELAS
1. Fix up binders for next week.
2. Read your IR book!

Composition
1. Fill out the body paragraph sheet for your standards task.
Below is a sample of the standards task written for "The Sniper." Topic sentences are in green, CDs are in blue, CMs are in red, and the anchor is purple.

Most people living in a country involved with war know how it ravages and affects life within that country. According to "The Sniper," by Liam O'Flaherty, the message is that war also tears apart relationships within families as well. In this tale that takes place during the civil war in Ireland, a Republican sniper on a rooftop tricks an enemy Free Stater sniper and, after shooting him, “he peered across and uttered a cry of joy.  His enemy had been hit”(O’Flaherty 214).  The protagonist, in a battle for his life, kills his enemy on the other side of the war’s conflict; it is resolved with the enemy sniper's death. The resolution of the story's conflict lends to the theme, and concerns the consequences of such a deadly action of war. This consequence is the death of a family member, showing that war tears apart families. When he goes across the street “the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother’s face” (O’Flaherty 215). The death of the sniper's brother at his hands is just one example of how war hurts relationships; specifically that of families. The sniper did not choose to kill his kin, but was put in a situation by the war that led him to do so. This is the deadly outcome of  war. O'Flaherty is making a point about the results of war and how it hurts families because of the situations it creates.

English H
1. JOTF #8