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GROUP PRESENTATIONS CLOSE READING CLOSE READING TASK You will be given three pages of the chapter Break it down: Title (create one) Summary (include quotes & tone) Important Quotes (2) [use shows/reveals that]
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TASK
▸ You will be given three pages of the chapter ▸ Break it down: ▸ Title (create one) ▸ Summary (include quotes & tone) ▸ Important Quotes (2) [use “shows/reveals that…”] ▸ Confusions ▸ Discussion Question ▸ Image that relates to the text
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RUBRIC AND RULES ▸ Four per group (One PowerPointer) ▸ 4–5 minutes (concise but powerful) ▸ Rubric (30 points) ▸ Quality of Information (20) ▸ In depth analysis, insightful, adds great meaning to the
text; aesthetically appealing and functional PPT
▸ Quality of Presentation (10) ▸ Volume, Eye Contact, Class Engagement
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In the opening chapter of the book, Vonnegut
happened, more or less” (Vonnegut 1). He admits that many things in the book he is writing actually occurred, despite how brutal they are (E.g, a soldier being killed for stealing a teapot). Vonnegut then goes on to recall his visit to Dresden in 1967: he compares it to Dayton, Ohio, excepting that “there must be tons of human bone meal in the ground” (1). The
Summary Quote Tone
LITERARY ANALYSIS
QUOTE ONE ▸ “All this happened, more or
less.”
▸ This shows that the authenticity
know if the contents of the book are credible or not, and Vonnegut nods to the fact that he is creating a work of fiction; however, it is based on fact. Interesting.
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QUOTE TWO
▸ “[He] took us to the slaughterhouse
where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war."
▸ This reveals the significance of the
book’s title. Vonnegut, after the Battle of the Bulge, was taken as a POW, and only by coincidence was his life spared while tens of thousands perished in the bombing of one of Europe’s most beautiful cities.
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LITERARY ANALYSIS
First, I’m a bit confused about why Vonnegut would open his novel from his own perspective. Why doesn’t he just tell the story? It turns out that Vonnegut is a post-modernist writer, and this convention of “metafiction”, or acknowledging that fiction is inherently artificial, is quite common. It’s totally changed the way I’ll read this book.
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Well, Vonnegut mentions that he returned to Dresden in 1967, which was during the cold
Eastern Bloc, and therefore under the communist control of the Soviet Occupation
American capitalism and the impact it had on the impoverished in society. He professed a socialist idealogy. Second, I’m a bit confused about Dresden being a communist city and Vonnegut’s positive
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