Why We Fight

Today, we'll continue to follow the exploits of the 101st Airborne Division as we see their movement into Germany and what they find there. We'll watch the episode Why We Fight from Band of Brothers  (this is not the full clip that we watched in class. If you have access to HBO or can rent the episode, we watched about the last 30 minutes of it).
After writing our reactions as well as listing any objects, images or symbols that were memorable, we'll watch the scene It Happened from Ken Burns' The War (*NOTE the linked clip is not the full clip we watched in class).
After writing our reactions as well as listing any object, images or symbols that were memorable, we also responded to these questions:  What do dramatic recreations of true stories do that documentaries can't? What do documentaries do that dramatic recreations can't? Which clip is more effective to tell this story and why?

We closed by using the information that we wrote to write a short talk.


A NOTE ABOUT YOUR HW FOR TONIGHT: The reading is actually the first part of preparation for Friday's class. Some of it is review, feel free to skim those parts.  You need to have both part one and part two read for Friday.