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Read the interview on at the following link. Discuss your findings in this interview and make connections to the novel that you are presently reading.

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Read the following essay. It will be worth your time. Respond. Discuss your feeling when your read it. Does this appear to match the personality of the young Conroy about whom you are presently reading?  Feel free to discuss other aspects of the novel as well.

<a href=”http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/002937.html“>

At the following links, look at the photos of the destruction done by the storm of 1900. Discuss your reaction to these photos. Can you connect any of these photos to anything described thus far in the novel? Feel free to discuss any issues that you have regarding the novel.

http://www.1900storm.com/photographs/index.lasso

Read the following interview with author Erik Larson. Discuss points of interest found in the chat interview.  What does Larson say about Cline’s fault in the devastation? What evidence can you find within his novel to back that claim?

http://www.cnn.com/chat/transcripts/2000/9/8/larson/index.html

Read the interview with O’Brien on the following website and determine whether or not you think his perspective on the Vietnam war has changed. Provide evidence from the interview to support your response.

http://www.wooster.edu/artfuldodge/interviews/obrien.htm

Read the interview found on the following site and respond to the comment made on this page. (see comment from khillier.)

http://www.newsun.com/angelou.html

Read a few of the poems found on the following website and discuss the ones that you find to be closely related to the events of the novel.

http://www.rawa.org/poems.htm