AP Language: The Things They Carried and Vietnam War Rhetoric

Speeches

• Pericles’ Funeral Oration
• MLK Speech Against the Vietnam War
• Richard Nixon Address to the Nation
• John Kerry Speech to Congress

Readings from The Things They Carried

• The Things They Carried, Love
• Spin, On the Rainy River
• Enemies, Friends, How to Tell a True War Story
• The Dentist, Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong, Stockings, Church
• The Man I Killed, Ambush, Style, Speaking of Courage
• Notes, In the Field, Good Form, Field Trip
• The Ghost Soliders, Night Life
• The Lives of the Dead