Flight


 * Discussion Time:**
 * Friday****, January 20,** **11:10-12:40 (4B)**

Jon Delp Will Porter Mike Clarke Nik Pelletier Tyler Campbell Steve Piker Anne Tommaso
 * Group Members:**

Characters: Zits (Michael): Main character throughout book (narrator) Justice: Zits’s friend he meets in jail and convinces him to kill. Officer Dave: Well known to Zits. Arrested him few too many times. Robert: One ofZits’s foster father. Mary: Abbod: One of Zits’ being’s partner that was his flying buddy who he realized that he was a terrorist and crashed a plane in Chicago. Setting(s):

Important plot events: Time Traveling Episodes: 1. Seattle 2.Bank seen 3. Reservation 4. Little Bighorn

Conflicts: There are many conflicts in the book first one of them being the fact that zits does not have a mother or father. Another conflict that zits has is the fact that he goes from foster home to foster home and he never has a stable living establishment. Violence--where it comes from, what would stop it. It seems like the drive to be violent is a major conflict in this book.

Narration (point of view): This novel is written in the first person point of view. This affects the story becauseZits would be able to make things seem better in his eyes or he can make thing seem worse then they actually are.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Quick Whip: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What you thought of the book.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Discussion Questions: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What if you were able to time travel like zits?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Do you have any input on the Native American culture that Zits talks about throughout the book?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why do you think the writer included time travel as a key piece of the book?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Would you want to be Zits in these situations?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> What do you think Zits time traveled to the Indian camp for?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Do you think that Zits has a good or bad impression after he traveled to the Indian camp?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Do you think that Zits is sad he doesn’t have a family?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do you think Zits felt after being in his father’s body?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What do you think the significance is of Zits time traveling to those certain body’s?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How relived do you think zits was when he finally went back to his own self?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What did u think was the most thought provoking scenes in the book?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Ten Words or Less: Describe this book in 10 words or less. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Togeather, summarize the book in ten words or less. Give everyone three minutes. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Three A’s <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What parts of the text AFFECT you? In pairs, compare notes and find 2-3 passages that make an impact on you. Share these around the circle. Allow time for comments from other participants.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What do you AGREE with in the passages? Same process

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What do you ARGUE with in the text? Same process <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Another Point of View <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choose a scene or longer passage that is ripe for discussion.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Together, examine how the story is narrated. Describe the narrator’s position, level of power, and tone.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Open discussion for three minutes or until you’ve covered it.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After you feel content with the discussion in #2, re-examine the scene from another character’s or narrator’s point of view, especially a person who has a different level of power than the narrator.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Discuss the scene/passage openly from both points of view.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reviews? Criticism?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Outside Resources: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NPR Interview: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">These comments from the interview helped me understand the story. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9517855__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So that sense of personal betrayal, when compared to the epic crime, that combination just hit me. So I started writing about that, but then I started thinking about other moments of incredible violence in United States history and what story hadn't been told about that particular act of violence. And so I started writing about other eras. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And I couldn't figure out how to connect them, these different eras of violence - the Battle of Little Bighorn, the political activism among American-Indian movement members in the '70s. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And then I read "Slaughterhouse-Five" - I reread "Slaughterhouse-Five," Kurt Vonnegut's time travel novel where his character - highly autobiographical character Billy Pilgrim - comes unstuck in time. And it's about World War II and the bombing of Dresden and concentration camps and, you know, space planets. And I thought, well, if Vonnegut can do it, I'll try - desperately.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And I just heard your news blurb before the show, and I thought - they've extended the tours of soldiers by another three months, and, you know, that made me sit back in my chair because the violence goes on and on. And however you feel about it, whichever side of this war you're on, it's the violence goes on and on and on. Both sides committing incredible acts of pain and suffering. And it never ends. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So that was very much in my head, how to talk about war in a different way. And the idea that, you know, even at Little Bighorn, people talk about it as being this incredible victory for Indians. And it was, certainly. But nobody ever talks about what the Indians did afterwards, which was commit these incredible acts of mutilation and torture.