As you read Stars Over Afghanistan, you noted how Schultz skilfully increased tension in the story. Using your imagination and knowledge of Parsa from the story, write an alternative ending for this story. Take up the action from ‘… this endless war.’
MANAGING INFORMATION AND THINKING
Success Criteria: In your new ending to Stars Over Afghanistan, you should have: n At least two paragraphs.
WORKING WITH OTHERS o
n Reference to two or more of the senses (touch, taste, sight, sound, smell).
NUMERACY o
n A development concerning one or more of: Parsa; Yagana and the children; or the helicopter.
STAYING WELL
n A conclusion that would satisfy someone who has read the story up to this point.
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Text 2: But You Didn’t by Merrill Glass 52
Before Reading Context: The Vietnam War
This poem by Merrill Glass specifically references the Vietnam War (1955-1973). The war was fought between the communist government of North Vietnam, and South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. More than three million people (including over 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War. More than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians. Opposition to the war in the United States bitterly divided Americans, even after President Richard Nixon ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973.
