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Updated Schedule

Updated Schedule. Feb 22: Proposal due March 1: Rough Draft due to BB by 8 AM Conferences that day: NO CLASS March 15 th : Final paper due Inquiry 1 with grades and my comments will be returned to you via email by this weekend. Readings . “Enemies” “Friends” “How to Tell a True War Story”.

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Updated Schedule

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  1. Updated Schedule • Feb 22: Proposal due • March 1: Rough Draft due to BB by 8 AM Conferences that day: NO CLASS • March 15th: Final paper due • Inquiry 1 with grades and my comments will be returned to you via email by this weekend.

  2. Readings • “Enemies” • “Friends” • “How to Tell a True War Story”

  3. Difference between historical/cultural. • Historical: the body of knowledge about the past produced by historians, together with everything that involved in the production, communication of, and teaching about that knowledge • Cultural: cumulative deposits of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religions, notions of time, gender, spatial relations etc., acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.

  4. Resources for Inquiry 2 • http://library.csun.edu/smeng/CommonReaderDiscussion.html

  5. http://library.csun.edu/smeng/CommonReaderDiscussion.html

  6. Group 1: Comparing Iraq conflict to War in Iraq Please research in your group online article comparing the Iraq war to the Vietnam conflict. Provide a bullet point list of comparing/contrasting Iraq to Vietnam (politics, public attitude, casualties, international involvement etc.) and be prepared to share with the class

  7. Group 2: Patriotic • "Ballad of the Green Berets," "Everything's O.K. at the LBJ," "Okie from Muskogee” • Compare to: Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue” & Zanna’s “Thank You America”

  8. Protest: • "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag," "Hitler Ain't Dead," "Where Have All Our Heroes Gone?" "Piss on Johnson's War" • Compare to: “God Bless this mess” (Sheryl Crow) & “When the President Talks to God” (Bright Eyes)

  9. Questions • What kind of sentiment do these songs share? • What specific language is use to communicate this? • How do the songs similar/dissimilar? • What lines, phrases, quotes are specific to their time period/universal? • What cultural or historical events/references are important and/or vital to content?

  10. Homework • Shorter writing assignment: • Please read Read “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” and answer 2 of following questions in a complete paragraph. • How does Mary Anne’s gender change the reader’s expectations about her reactions to the war? • How does she defy gender stereotypes? • What does the story tell us about the nature of the Vietnam War? • Did the story seem plausible to you? Why or why not?

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