PLEASE DO NOW!

1. PLEASE DO NOW! Write your name and period on the packet I handed you when you walked in. Turn the page to the Anticipation Guide. Read the directions and complete the sheet. * Complete the statements you can. If you don’t understand what the statement means, just leave it blank for now until I come in and we can talk about it.

2. If something is not included in a novel, it is the duty of the author to keep it a secret. DISAGREE AGREE

3. Characters have no life or influence outside the pages of a book. DISAGREE AGREE

4. It is unfair to let someone fall in love with you if you know that you are dying. DISAGREE AGREE

5. Education is wasted on the terminally ill. DISAGREE AGREE

6. Knowledge of an artist should not change your opinion of his/her work. DISAGREE AGREE

7. It would be easy to live life to the fullest if you knew you were going to die sooner rather than later. DISAGREE AGREE

8. The best stories are those that leave the reader to interpret the ending. DISAGREE AGREE

9. I am afraid to be a burden on my family or friends one day. DISAGREE AGREE

10. Talking about feelings with a group of peers who shares them is helpful in coping. DISAGREE AGREE

11. I would stick by a friend who was terminally ill no matter what. DISAGREE AGREE

12. PLEASE DO NOW! We discussed a lot of important issues yesterday in reference to The Fault in Our Stars. What’s one discussion we had yesterday that really stuck out to you? Why was that important? What is your opinion? Was it affected by the discussion? Write a paragraph!

13. Free Write

14. Free Write CANCER

15. A quick tour of the first few pages of the book… Read through the praise for A Fault in our Stars. What praise in particular stands out to you? Why?

16. Who is John Green? Who is John Green? Author of The Fault in Our Stars, Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, and Paper Towns Co-author, with David Levithan, of Will Grayson, Will Grayson Has won many awards for his writing Spent five months working as a student chaplain at a children's hospital; this influenced his career choice and later inspired him to write TFiOS Lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with his wife and children

17. Who is John Green? Who is John Green? • In 2007, ceased textual communication with brother, Hank, and began to talk primarily through videoblogs posted to YouTube • Videos spawned community of people called nerdfighters who fight for intellectualism and to decrease the overall worldwide level of suck. • “Decreasing suck takes many forms: Nerdfighters have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight poverty in the developing world; they also planted thousands of trees around the world in May of 2010 to celebrate Hank’s 30th birthday.”

18. Who is John Green? Who is John Green? Although they have long since resumed textual communication, John and Hank continue to upload two videos a week to their YouTube channel, vlogbrothers. Videos have been viewed more than 200 million times, and their channel is one of the most popular in the history of online video. Also an active Twitter user with more than 1.2 million followers

19. Who is John Green? Who is John Green?

20. To Esther Earl August 3, 1994 - August 25, 2010 http://tswgo.org/esthers-story.html

21. To Esther Earl "We’re talking about story.Esther’s story is powerful because it’s all of our story, we face hard times, trauma, painful things, we look for meaning in those hard things, we look for people to love us and people who we love. That’s how we see her story."         - Lori Earl Be sure to read the author’s note!

22. On having a sense of humor while living with cancer… "All of the people I've known who were sick — young or old — were still funny. It's important to note or remember that people who are sick and people who are dying aren't dead. They're still alive. And sometimes we forget that, and we treat the sick and the dying so gingerly and so carefully, when often what they most want is to be alive while they are alive. And so I've known a lot of young people who were very sick but also very, very funny, and often in dark, dark ways."

23. On understanding the capriciousness of cancer… "I think cancer in many ways to those of us alive today is similar to what tuberculosis was like in the 19th century. It's so unfair: It takes the young, it takes the old. Sometimes you live, sometimes you die. And it's very difficult to make sense of the reasons why it may go one way or another. It's very, very difficult to imagine it as anything other than just cruel and cold and capricious. And that makes it difficult to imagine the universe as anything other than cold and capricious. And I wanted to be honest about that, because I wanted them to have to face, in the most desperate way, that overwhelming question, as T.S. Eliot called it, of how we're going to organize our lives and what they're going to mean."

24. On living with cancer as an adolescent… "A lot of times when you read books about young people with cancer, they're these wise-eyed children with the secret to life hidden inside of them or whatever. But the truth is so much different from that, I think. The truth is that teenagers are teenagers, whether they're sick or well. And whether they're going to exit adolescence or not, they still have to go through this. Hazel has the opportunity to become an adult. Maybe her adulthood won't last as long as we would've liked, but she has that opportunity, so her parents kind of have to let her be a teenager."

25. On the idea that there's only one thing worse than being a kid with cancer: having a kid with cancer… "That's something that a kid said to me when I worked at the hospital all those years ago that really stuck with me. It stuck with me partly because it's unusual that children are able to imagine their parents complexly enough to understand how difficult it is, and also because I knew how much neither the parent nor the child wanted that to be true, even though it was true."

26. On keeping in touch with his readers… "I'm very fortunate. I know them. I like hearing from them. I feel fortunate to interact with them. I like reading their YouTube comments. I like reading their reviews on book review websites. I like the engagement that we have with each other, because the truth is, the world extends outside the world of books. And I feel fortunate to be able to have a relationship with them outside of the book as well as inside of it." http://www.npr.org/2012/01/28/145903081/star-crossed-when-teens-with-cancer-fall-in-love