1. Warming up with a quick concrete poem on the book cover:
- Stare hard at the cover of your book. Really hard.
- Find three specific aspects of the cover your eyes find interesting. Describe them in detail, giving each its own line.
- Find one paradox (seeming contradiction) on the cover. Use your 4th (and maybe your 5th) line to describe it.
- Ask a question about the American Dream, the title, or any aspect of Fitzgerald's life.
- Answer it, using one image from your first three lines.
4th Hour: Click here for your group journal.
6th Hour: Click here for your group journal.
- Artists (4): Sketch images/characters that stand out to you.
- Fact-gatherers (5): Gather the facts about characters.
- Mappers (3): Map out East Egg vs. West Egg, who lives where, characteristics of each. Pay attention to setting and how it relates to the characters.
- Actors (4): Read aloud the parts of Daisy, Nick (the narrator), Tom, Jordan.
- American Dream seekers (5): You're seeking of evidence of the American Dream.
- Poets (5): You're finding beautiful, beautiful lines.
- Biographers (5): Find evidence of F. Scott's (and Zelda's) own experiences in the book.
3. Signing up for our Gatsby fishbowl discussions; remember that must sign up once to be a leader and once to be a discusser (and those cannot be on the same date)
Click HERE for the fishbowl overview (also on the website).
HW:
1. Tribute memoirs due tomorrow by 3 pm in www.turnitin.com
- 50 points in Attempt and Completion for turning it in on time (45/50 if you ask for an extension 24 hours in advance and meet your new deadline, 40/50 if one school day late without asking for an extension, 10 point deduction each day after that).
- 100 points in Mastery for the content of your memoir.
2. You will need your completed parent-interview sheets for tomorrow's first Friday freewrite.
3. Turn in your Color of Water books. I will be scanning them with my magic laser beam on Monday.
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