Did you ever hear about the Vietnam War, if you did it was a sad moment for Soldiers

because they

risked their lives for many people. In the book Fallen Angels by Walter D. Myers a 17 year old boy named

Richie doesn’t know what to do in his life so he enlists himself in the army and joins the Vietnam War. Richie

didn’t know what to do in the future so he wanted to sign up at the army. But then he made a very hard decision

to join the Vietnam War and so he had to risk his life for others. How can bravery and fear impact a person’s

future?

I believe that bravery can impact a person’s future. One reason I say this is because Richie didn’t know

what to do in his life so he joined the army but he had the courage and will to join the army. One quote from

Woodrow Wilson is “The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men

is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.” Richie thought the war was going to be over quickly but the war

was nowhere close from being finished. Richie and his friend Pee-Wee were challenged through many obstacles

in the war and overcoming their fears from all the heroic moments of the war. I believe that bravery can impact

a person’s future in good ways by believing and trusting themselves.

I also conclude that fear can impact a person’s future. One reason I say this is, it states on (pg. 98) “I

was nervous being with these new guys. Scotty must have sensed it, because he came over and told me

everything was going to be cool.” Richie was feared because he just met these guys and he didn’t want to get

into trouble with these guys. Another quote in Chapter 11 is “We spend another day laying around. It seemed to

be what the war was about. Hours of boredom, seconds of terror.” This means that Richie was frightened about

the moments he saw and the war was still going on. I believe that fear impacts a person’s future in bad ways

because fear can frighten people a lot and not make them want to do something.

I believe that bravery and fear can impact a person’s future. But other people say that it doesn’t impact a

person’s future because it is a general thing that all people are scared of and people are brave in things. It

impacts a person’s future or career because they can be brave in their future because it can lead them to positive

outcomes and having fear can also have negative outcomes toward a person’s future.
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Learning Goals 4.0 3.0 2.0 1.0 0.0

PROBLEM I can create an I can select a

FORMULATION: original Personal I can create an Personal
With help, I can Even with help, I
Formulates testable, Essential original Personal Essential
researchable, and select (or create) cannot select or
Question (PEQ), Essential Question (PEQ)
relevant questions, and answer a answer a
take a position, Question (PEQ) and describe the
problem statements, or Personal Personal
hypotheses that and justify that and develop an relationship
Essential Essential
demonstrate clarity position as the argument in between my
about the nature of the Question (PEQ). Question (PEQ).
best amongst response. selected topics
task.
other positions. and themes.

RESEARCH:
Collects information and I can investigate
data necessary to solve outside sources I can classify With help, I can Even with help, I
the problem as I can identify
for relevant textual evidence identify textual cannot identify
formulated, drawing textual evidence
textual evidence as support for evidence as textual evidence
evidence from as support for my
informational texts, to support claims claims and support for my as support for
claim.
conducting an counterclaims, counterclaims. claim. my claim.
investigation, or and rebuttals.
generating data.

I can accurately
I can accurately
analyze and use Even with help, I
INTERPRETATION: analyze and use With help, I can
Synthesizes multiple relevant and I can use relevant cannot use
relevant and use relevant
sources of data to sufficient direct direct evidence to relevant direct
sufficient direct direct evidence
support a claim, solve a and inferential answer my evidence to
problem, or answer a evidence to to answer my
evidence to question. answer my
question. answer my question.
answer my question.
question.
question.

I can introduce
and establish
I can introduce
clear relationships
and order ideas Even with help, I
among ideas and I can introduce With help, I can
COMMUNICATION: and information cannot introduce
information within and groups ideas introduce and
Incorporates ideas and within and across and groups
supporting evidence and across and information groups ideas
paragraphs and ideas and
purposefully using paragraphs and through a basic and information
structures that use transitions in information
use transitions in use of paragraph through a basic
demonstrate the line of a way that allows through a basic
reasoning.
a way that structure and use of paragraph
the audience to use of paragraph
clarifies the transitions. structure.
follow the structure.
reasoning and
argument.
logic of the
argument.

I can submit a I can submit a

PRECISION: final product that final product that I can submit a
Assures that the final With help, I can
product meets all meets or exceeds meets all ELA final product that
submit a final Even with help, I
discipline-specific all ELA standards standards for attempts all ELA
standards for language,
product that cannot submit a
for language, language, standards for
terms, expressions, attempts ELA final product.
academic academic language and
rules, terminology, and standards.
conventions. vocabulary, and vocabulary, and conventions.
conventions. conventions.
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