Prompt for your composition books: Full page: Which do you prefer: Testerday or tomorrow? Explain your answer to fill up a whole page.
Quiz over chapter two. You can bypass the quiz by interacting with the chapter on a full page. DO NOT use terms and words from Sparknotes. I will know. A good way to go is to use first person and describe how you felt about the events.
Gatsby Chapter 3 in class. Prepare for the quiz next class.
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Friday & Tuesdsay, February 17 & 21.
Prompt for your composition books: Full page: List the first ten things you did this morning. Explain the processes to fill up a whole page.
Quiz over chapter one. You can bypass the quiz by interacting with the chapter on a full page. DO NOT use terms and words from Sparknotes. I will know. A good way to go is to use first person and describe how you felt about the events.
Gatsby Chapter 2 in class. Prepare for the quiz next class.
Quiz over chapter one. You can bypass the quiz by interacting with the chapter on a full page. DO NOT use terms and words from Sparknotes. I will know. A good way to go is to use first person and describe how you felt about the events.
Gatsby Chapter 2 in class. Prepare for the quiz next class.
Wednesday, Thursday February 15, February 16
Chapter 1 Great Gatsby. We also watched a prezi on the previous class. See teacher for details.
We started writing in our journals The prompt was List in order of importance: Money Fame Honesty Respect Faith . Fill up a page by explaining why your choices.
We started writing in our journals The prompt was List in order of importance: Money Fame Honesty Respect Faith . Fill up a page by explaining why your choices.
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Monday, Tuesday: February 13/ 14th
We did a character tea party over Great Gatsby. Fill in your character chart using ideas from this:
1. I am Nick Carraway, a quiet Midwesterner adrift in the corruption of eastern seaboard wealth. I am the narrator of the book, a cousin of Daisy Buchanan, and a former member of Tom Buchanan’s social club at Yale. I met Gatsby when I moved in next to him, and I became his only real friend after a series of strange events. I have a romantic interest in golf pro Jordan Baker, but I am repelled by her dishonesty and her lack of consideration for others. I eventually decide to settle in Minnesota, where the moral structure is stronger.
2. I am Jay Gatsby. I’m thirty years old, and I rose from an impoverished childhood in North Dakota to become fabulously wealthy. I don’t admit to my childhood. As a poor, young military officer, I met Daisy Buchanan before leaving to fight in WWI. Daisy said that she would wait for me, but she didn’t. She did not know about my poverty, and I pursued wealth in order to win her back. After gaining my fortune, I changed my name from James Gatz, and everything I do is with an eye to win Daisy back. Others do not really know how I got my money, and some think it was due to criminal activity. Regardless, they attend my parties anyway. I am not usually seen at my lavish parties until Nick arrives in town.
3. I am Daisy Buchanan. Nick Carraway is my cousin. I fell in love with Gatsby right before he left to serve in WWI. I believed that he was wealthy, and promised that I would wait for him to return. I got tired of waiting, though, and married Tom Buchanan, who is “old money” from East Egg, an area with homes occupied by generationally rich families. I am beautiful, charming, fickle, shallow, and easily bored. People tell me my character is partially based on Fitzgerald’s wife Zelda, because we both love money, ease, and material luxury.
4. I am Tom Buchanan. I was once a member of Nick Carraway’s social club at Yale. I am arrogant, athletic, and hypocritical. Although I am married to Daisy, I am having an affair with Myrtle, the sexy, uneducated wife of Tom Wilson, who is my mechanic. I tend to become a little outraged at the thought of my wife looking at other men.
5. I am Jordan Baker. I’m Daisy’s friend and Nick’s love interest. I am a competitive golfer, and cheated to win my first tournament. I am known to be cynical, boyish, outgoing, and self-centered. I have no problem bending the truth.
6. I am Myrtle Wilson. My husband is George, who owns a garage in the Valley of the Ashes where he sometimes works on Gatsby’s cars. Although I am married, Tom Buchanan is my lover. I am fiercely determined to improve my life, and I want it to include Tom, not George. I often visit my sister to create a way to meet up with Tom.
7. I am George Wilson. I am married to Myrtle, and I own a garage in the Valley of the Ashes. Sometimes I work on Gatsby’s cars. I am devoted to Myrtle, but she doesn’t seem to notice it, perhaps because I am not going to move up the social ladder. I’m not sure, but I suspect that she might be having an affair.
8. I am Klipspringer. Some think I am a shallow freeloader who seems almost to live at Gatsby’s mansion and takes advantage of his money. At the end of the novel, I disappear. I do not even attend the going away celebration, although I do call Nick about a pair of tennis shoes that I left at Gatsby’s mansion. People think that there are some parallels between me and a young James Gatz.
9. I am Meyer Wolfsheim, Gatsby’s friend. I have connections to organized crime, and helped Gatsby make his fortune bootlegging illegal liquor. I am an inhabitant of New York’s seedy underworld and a dead ringer for real-life Arnold Rothstein, who fixed the 1919 World Series. That I am still acquainted with Gatsby suggests to some that Gatsby is still involved in illegal business.
10. I am the Owl-Eyed Man, the eccentric, bespectacled drunk who Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby’s mansion. Nick finds me looking through Gatsby’s library, astonished that the books are real. Some see me as being similar to the billboard for Dr. T.J. Eckleburg with the “all-seeing” eyes, as we symbolize an uninvolved, spectator god.
11. I am Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), an American novelist and short story writer whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. I was widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century and considered a member of the “Lost Generation” of the 1920s. I wrote four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender is the Night (a fifth, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously). I also wrote numerous short stories, many of which treat themes of youth and promise, and age and despair. My wife is Zelda, a beautiful Alabama socialite who, when were engaged, broke off the engagement when it did not appear that I could support her to her style. She resumed the engagement when my first book, This Side of Paradise, made me wealthy.
The writing prompt for today:
What celebrity do you wish lived next to you? Why? You are required to write a full page.
1. I am Nick Carraway, a quiet Midwesterner adrift in the corruption of eastern seaboard wealth. I am the narrator of the book, a cousin of Daisy Buchanan, and a former member of Tom Buchanan’s social club at Yale. I met Gatsby when I moved in next to him, and I became his only real friend after a series of strange events. I have a romantic interest in golf pro Jordan Baker, but I am repelled by her dishonesty and her lack of consideration for others. I eventually decide to settle in Minnesota, where the moral structure is stronger.
2. I am Jay Gatsby. I’m thirty years old, and I rose from an impoverished childhood in North Dakota to become fabulously wealthy. I don’t admit to my childhood. As a poor, young military officer, I met Daisy Buchanan before leaving to fight in WWI. Daisy said that she would wait for me, but she didn’t. She did not know about my poverty, and I pursued wealth in order to win her back. After gaining my fortune, I changed my name from James Gatz, and everything I do is with an eye to win Daisy back. Others do not really know how I got my money, and some think it was due to criminal activity. Regardless, they attend my parties anyway. I am not usually seen at my lavish parties until Nick arrives in town.
3. I am Daisy Buchanan. Nick Carraway is my cousin. I fell in love with Gatsby right before he left to serve in WWI. I believed that he was wealthy, and promised that I would wait for him to return. I got tired of waiting, though, and married Tom Buchanan, who is “old money” from East Egg, an area with homes occupied by generationally rich families. I am beautiful, charming, fickle, shallow, and easily bored. People tell me my character is partially based on Fitzgerald’s wife Zelda, because we both love money, ease, and material luxury.
4. I am Tom Buchanan. I was once a member of Nick Carraway’s social club at Yale. I am arrogant, athletic, and hypocritical. Although I am married to Daisy, I am having an affair with Myrtle, the sexy, uneducated wife of Tom Wilson, who is my mechanic. I tend to become a little outraged at the thought of my wife looking at other men.
5. I am Jordan Baker. I’m Daisy’s friend and Nick’s love interest. I am a competitive golfer, and cheated to win my first tournament. I am known to be cynical, boyish, outgoing, and self-centered. I have no problem bending the truth.
6. I am Myrtle Wilson. My husband is George, who owns a garage in the Valley of the Ashes where he sometimes works on Gatsby’s cars. Although I am married, Tom Buchanan is my lover. I am fiercely determined to improve my life, and I want it to include Tom, not George. I often visit my sister to create a way to meet up with Tom.
7. I am George Wilson. I am married to Myrtle, and I own a garage in the Valley of the Ashes. Sometimes I work on Gatsby’s cars. I am devoted to Myrtle, but she doesn’t seem to notice it, perhaps because I am not going to move up the social ladder. I’m not sure, but I suspect that she might be having an affair.
8. I am Klipspringer. Some think I am a shallow freeloader who seems almost to live at Gatsby’s mansion and takes advantage of his money. At the end of the novel, I disappear. I do not even attend the going away celebration, although I do call Nick about a pair of tennis shoes that I left at Gatsby’s mansion. People think that there are some parallels between me and a young James Gatz.
9. I am Meyer Wolfsheim, Gatsby’s friend. I have connections to organized crime, and helped Gatsby make his fortune bootlegging illegal liquor. I am an inhabitant of New York’s seedy underworld and a dead ringer for real-life Arnold Rothstein, who fixed the 1919 World Series. That I am still acquainted with Gatsby suggests to some that Gatsby is still involved in illegal business.
10. I am the Owl-Eyed Man, the eccentric, bespectacled drunk who Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby’s mansion. Nick finds me looking through Gatsby’s library, astonished that the books are real. Some see me as being similar to the billboard for Dr. T.J. Eckleburg with the “all-seeing” eyes, as we symbolize an uninvolved, spectator god.
11. I am Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), an American novelist and short story writer whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. I was widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century and considered a member of the “Lost Generation” of the 1920s. I wrote four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender is the Night (a fifth, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously). I also wrote numerous short stories, many of which treat themes of youth and promise, and age and despair. My wife is Zelda, a beautiful Alabama socialite who, when were engaged, broke off the engagement when it did not appear that I could support her to her style. She resumed the engagement when my first book, This Side of Paradise, made me wealthy.
The writing prompt for today:
What celebrity do you wish lived next to you? Why? You are required to write a full page.
Monday, February 6, 2017
Week of February 6 through February 10, 2017
Censorship debate in class
Essay on a chosen theme is returned to students
Study in class and at home for test on Wednesday, Thursday. See previous post for useful study aids.
Essay on a chosen theme is returned to students
Study in class and at home for test on Wednesday, Thursday. See previous post for useful study aids.
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