Students participate in research activities, close reading, character analysis, reader response activities, journaling, interpretation of style and structure, and theme analysis.

Supplementary materials include a reading guide with suggested responses, character quiz and objective test with answer keys, and an essay test. This unit includes 12 Lesson Plans / 26 Handouts / 84 Pages, aligned to Common Core standards, grades 9-12, high school.

Literary

American Novel

21st-Century Skills

• Collaboration
• Critical thinking
• Social and cross-cultural skills
• Productivity and accountability
• Leadership and responsibility

Overview

The They Carried is a contemporary masterpiece that tells stories of the fictional Alpha Company during the Vietnam conflict. It is a novel derived from the author’s own experiences and woven together in an impressionistic style. Through numerous vignettes and a single narrative viewpoint, readers are immersed in the confusion of war and the ambiguities of life and death both in battle and in the aftermath.