Dresden Debate

1. Starter 6: What is the most convincing piece of evidence for your side of the debate?  Why?  What is your actual position on this issue?  Explain why.

2. Dresden Debate


3. Slaughterhouse Five Freewrite

• Based on chapters 2 and 3, how would describe Billy Pilgrim (physical and personality)?  What adjectives would you use?
• Do you like Billy Pilgrim?  Why/Why not?
• Any burning questions?

4. Slaughterhouse Five Discussion

• Compare and contrast Roland Weary and Billy Pilgrim.  Why would the author create such contrasting characters?
•  Page 26, quote about time.  Summarize what Billy learned.   How does time work in this worldview?  How is this different from how we usually conceive of time?  Why would the author want you to think about time this way?  What effect does the phrase so it goes have on the statement that precedes it?  In other words, how would the impact of what he says before the phrase be different if he left that phrase out?
• Page 67: “I was there.  So was my old war buddy, Bernard V. O’Hare.  Why is Vonnegut inserting himself into the story here?  What effect does this have on how you, as the reader, view what you are being told?

Homework: Read chapter 4 of Slaughterhouse 5.  Work on REM.