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by
Randall Jarrell
Randall
Jarrell-Time Line
The
library at the University of North Carolina offers this time
line of author Randall Jarrell's life. Choose one significant
event from each of the six periods of Jarrell's life and record
them in the Web Links Activity Log.
Then make a similar time line of your life, categorizing significant
events that took place into "periods" of your choosing. Add
to the time line any events that you would like to see happen
in the future.
B-17
Flying fortress: A Brief History
To learn more about the airplane described in "The Death of
the Ball Turret Gunner," visit this Boeing Company Web page
dedicated to the B-17 bomber. After viewing the photograph
of this classic warplane, can you better visualize how vulnerable
the gunner was in his position in the ball turret? Write another
poem that describes the speaker's thoughts upon his first
view of the plane.
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