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The Tim O'Brien Socratic Dialogue:
How to Tell a True War Story
| Essential Question: How do you tell a "true" war story? |
| What is the purpose of the Socratic Seminar? | ||||
| • To motivate scholarly discourse based on an essential question. | ||||
| • To create an essential question that raises multiple perspectives and responses | ||||
| • To engage students in civil conversation encouraging them
to listen to different interpretations of the same text—an interpretation supported by evidence in the text. |
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| • To encourage higher order thinking; (including analysis of a text, synthesis of ideas, evaluation of concepts, and inferential reasoning) | ||||
| • To develop speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills | ||||
| Vocabulary in "How to Tell a True War Story": | ||||
| • Students need to educate themselves on unfamiliar vocabulary | ||||
| • Students should track their new found vocabulary within the resources. | ||||
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| Scaffolding for the Tim O'Brien Seminar | |
| • Students need to have knowledge of the subject and contextualization of the time and subject | |
| • Have students do their own study and/or research on the topic to help them get grounded in the content. | |
| Important Supporting Document: | |
| Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Second Inaugural Address, The Emancipation Proclamation | |
| Content Questions: Gettysburg | |
| Why does O’Brien preface the story by saying “this is a true”? | |
| According to O’Brien, after hearing a “war story,” how can you tell you’ve you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie? | |
| According to O’Brien, why is it difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen? | |
| Why does O’Brien think that a true war story is not about
courage or heroism? Why do we tell war stories? |
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| Describe a new true war story. | |
Supporting Documents |
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| Tim O’Brien: “How to Tell a True War Story” pdf | |
| Writing Vietnam: A Seminar on Tim O'Brien at Brown | |
| Tim O’Brien’s Keynote Address at the Seminar | |
| Tim O’Brien’s Biography and comparison with the character “Tim” in the book | |
| Library of Congress—Experiencing War: Veterans tell their stories | |
| The Veterans History Project of the American Folklife Center collects, preserves, and makes accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war. | |
| Sparknotes: How to Tell a True War Story | |
| ENotes: How to Tell a True War Story | |
| Vietnam War | |
| The American Experience: Vietnam Online | |
| Why Was America in Vietnam? | |
| Vietnam Primary Sources | |
| Interactive Wartime Chronology of Vietnam | |
| Vietnam Timetables | |
| The Language of War: A partial list of terms | |
| PBS Maps: Vietnam from 1945 to Postwar years | |
| Who’s Who in Vietnam | |
| The My Lai Massacre | |
| Murder in the Name of War: the BBC on My Lai | |
| Vietnam Execution | |
| BBC: Vietnam Napalm Attack | |
| Recalling the Vietnam War Experience: Famous Americans Interviewed | |
| Vietnam Archives and Resources: Asian Studies | |
| Vietnam Artifacts | |
| Propaganda Leaflets Dropped on North Vietnam 1966 | |
| Vietnam: A Decade of Posters 1965-1975 | |
| The Draft Lottery | |
| Walter Cronkite on Vietnam: You Tube | |
| Walter Cronkite’s Report—the text | |
| "To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. On the off chance that military and political analysts are right, in the next few months we must test the enemy's intentions, in case this is indeed his last big gasp before negotiations. But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could." | |
| Walter Kronkite: American Masters on PBS | |
| Kronkite on Iraq and his Vietnam comment | |
| Spiro Agnew’s Speech on the Credibility Gap | |
| “Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York! Television may have destroyed the old stereotypes, but has it not created new ones in their places? What has this "passionate" pursuit of controversy done to the politics of progress through logical compromise essential to the functioning of a democratic society?” | |
| Journalism and War | |
| The Legacy of the Vietnam War: Newshour—April 5, 2000 | |
| Journalists Covering the Vietnam War | |
| KENNETH BACON, Pentagon Spokesman: If you go back to the term that Spiro Agnew used "credibility gap," it comes from that period, Vietnam, and it made the media deeply distrustful. I think that distrust has mellowed somewhat to healthy skepticism. But it's right below the surface - the distrust - and we have to realize that. I think it's made us basically more forthcoming than we were during Vietnam in explaining why we're doing things. | |
| The Top 100 Works of Journalism in the United States in the 20th Century | |
| Morley Safer: PBS | |
| Doonesbury: BD in Vietnam | |
| Doonesbury on Vietnam | |
| World War II | |
| Bill Mauldin’s Stars and Stripes | |
| Bill Mauldin Cartoons | |
| Ernie Pyle: Indiana School of Journalism | |
| Ernie Pyle: "The Goddamn Infantry" | |
| From one of Ernie Pyle’s most famous columns, these words celebrate foot soldiers. | |
| George Baker: Original Sad Sack Cartoons | |
| The Authentic History Center: Political Cartoons from WWII | |
| Photojournalism | |
| WWII –Dead on the Beach | |
| Buddhist Mond on Fire 1963 | |
| Vietnam--South of the DMZ 1966 | |
| Mahammad Ali Rejects the Draft 1967 | |
| Napalm Attack 1972 Pulizer Prize | |
| Vietnam Released POW 1973 Pulizer Prize | |
| Pictures: | |
| Crow Drawing of Custer's Last Stand | |
| Anheuser-Busch's Version of Custer's Last Stand | |
| Great American Speeches | |
| American Rhetoric: 100 Best American Speeches | |
| President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (March 4, 1865) | |
| Literature and War | |
| The War Prayer--Mark Twain | |
| "Only dead men can tell the truth in this world. It can be published after I am dead." Mark Twain on the War Prayer's Publication | |
| Tim O’Brien: “How to Tell a True War Story” pdf | |
| America at War in Literature | |
| Concord Hynm--Emerson | |
| Paul Revere's Ride--Longfellow | |
| Battle Hymn of the Republic--The Civil War | |
| The Civil War--Poetry and Song | |
| Grass--Carl Sandburg | |
| The Charge of the Light Brigade--Tennyson (British) | |
| War Movies | |
| Longest Day We Were Soldiers Gallipoli Saving Private Ryan Apocalypse Now: All Quiet on the Western Front The Deer Hunter Platoon Paths of Glory Born on the Fourth of July Grand Illusion The Best Years of Our Lives Patton Mash Glory Full Metal Jacket |
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| Movie Speeches | |
| Gettysburg:
Col. Chamberlain:What They Are Fighting For |
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| Patton: General George Smith Patton, Jr. Addresses the 3rd Army | |
| Saving Private Ryan” Captain Miller: Address to the Unit on Mission to Save Private Ryan | |
| We
Were Soldiers” Lieutenant Colonel Harold “Hal” G. Moore: Address to the 7th Cavalry |
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Important American Documents |
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| Our Documents: 100 Important Milestone Documents | |
| The following is a list of 100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration, and drawn primarily from its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965. | |
| Archives of Important Documents 1800-1899 | |
| Other U.S. Documents—Mayflower Compact, I Have a Dream Speech, etc… | |
| National Archives Exhibits | |
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