Click to enlarge the images and read "Mornings in Helmand” and the excerpt of “How to Feel Ashamed for Things You Never Did." Check your comprehension of genre by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.
The poem reads as follows: After 12 Hr shifts emptying wound vacs and bandaging stumps and changing bloody sheets I would return to my tent and a bunk no wider than my shoulders no room to turn to roll to dream I learned to sleep like I was dead which was easy considering how I lived.
Title: How to Feel Ashamed for Things You Never Did by Matthew Young Text: When I return from my first deployment, my family is waiting at Camp San Mateo. Our company rolls in on charter buses from March Air Force Base in the evening. We exit the buses to a parade deck full of screaming families. Some of my salts who got out before or during the deployment are outside the armory throwing beers over the fence as we turn in rifles and heavy weapon systems. The camp guard gives up. I find my family wandering the basketball court at the center of the barracks calling my name. Not everyone, but most of them: grandparents, aunt, fiancée. I want so badly to be happy when I see them. My family has rooms at a hotel in San Clemente, California, just outside Pendleton. I have leave for ninety-six hours. Four days. The thought of four days with them quickens my heart. In the car I place my sweaty palm to the smooth, cool flesh of my fiancée's thigh, and the muscle beneath her skin tightens for a lightning strike of seconds. From the front seat, my grandfather talks about the drive from Mount Shasta to Camp Pendleton. He
Sorry. That is incorrect because the poem does not discuss a river. For more help, see Chapter 18, “How can I design my document?”
Correct. That is correct. The layout visually represents the speaker’s feelings of narrowness. For more help with design, see Chapter 18, “How can I design my document?”
Sorry. That is incorrect because the layout does not mimic the map of Helmand province. For more help, see Chapter 18, “How can I design my document?”
Sorry. That is incorrect because the poem does not mention a rifle. For more help, see Chapter 18, “How can I design my document?”
Sorry. That is incorrect because memoirs draw mainly from personal experiences, not statistical data. For more help, see Chapter 6, “What kinds of documents are used to share reflections?”
Sorry. That is incorrect because memoirs draw mainly from personal experiences, not interviews with experts. For more help, see Chapter 6, “What kinds of documents are used to share reflections?”
Correct. That is correct, because writers of memoirs draw on their own personal experiences to explore bigger themes. For more help, see Chapter 6, “What kinds of documents are used to share reflections?”
Sorry. That is incorrect. Memoirs and reflective essays routinely draw on sources, usually the writer’s personal experiences and observations. For more help, see Chapter 6, “What kinds of documents are used to share reflections?”
Correct. That is correct. Reflective writing in poems and essays focuses on giving voice to the experiences of the writers, not comparing or evaluating them from best to worst. For more help, see Chapter 6, “What is writing to reflect?”
Sorry. That is incorrect because writing to inform could in fact be a secondary purpose for these authors. For more help, see Chapter 6, “What is writing to reflect?”
Sorry. That is incorrect because writing to analyze the trauma of war could in fact be a secondary purpose for these authors. For more help, see Chapter 6, “What is writing to reflect?”
Sorry. That is incorrect because writing to help address the problems facing returning veterans could in fact be a secondary purpose for these authors. For more help, see Chapter 6, “What is writing to reflect?”
