Please have out/up your interviews with your parents.
1. Warming up with by taking a literal stand on the American Dream
2. Indulging in little preview of The Great Gatsby, Baz Lurhmann style
To discuss after you watch:
- What are your impressions of the characters?
- What are your impressions of the background scene (the 1920s)? What made it "roaring"?
- What else stood out to you?
3. Watching part of the A & E Biography on the Fitzgeralds (buckle your seatbelts)
- Click HERE for the reflection questions if you'd prefer to type.
HW:
1. If you missed yesterday's deadline for interviewing your parents, you have one more chance to take of care it: TONIGHT!
2. Final drafts tribute memoirs due Thursday by 3:00 pm in www.turnitin.com
3. Bring your Gatsby books tomorrow and Thursday; we will be reading Chapters 1 and 2 together. We will also be signing up for fishbowl discussions.
I learned that Fitzgerald had many failures in life and struggled with getting recognition.
ReplyDeleteThe struggles of his life are the most interesting part of his books.
ReplyDeleteThings would be fun and exciting at first in the Great Gatsby but turns sour and bad similarly to Fitzgerald's life.
ReplyDeleteI predict that the main theme of The Great Gatsby will be the american dream and how it was alive during the 20's.
ReplyDeleteWhat I learned about Scott through this video is that he never really got what he wanted. He never got enough and therefor was never happy.
ReplyDeleteI learned that F. Scott had a rough life but he was very ambitious to become successful. I think this characteristic will carry over to the Great Gatsby.
ReplyDeleteHe had many failures and struggles throughout his life
ReplyDeleteI think that it is important to know his background. How he flunked out of college and was in the war.
ReplyDeleteHe was very uneasy
ReplyDeleteWealth has a huge influence on behavior
ReplyDeleteThroughout Fitzgerald's life, he had a really rough time, but he always tried to find a way to rise up.
ReplyDeleteI think Gatsby will come across many bumps in the road and his life will snowball from mess to mess becoming so large one day everything will burst.
ReplyDeleteI learned that Fitzgerald had an affair while his wife was struggling mentally.
ReplyDeleteHis life was full of failures and successes, the highs were very high and the lows were very low. There was not a whole lot of stability throughout his life.
ReplyDeleteI predict a melancholy ending to the book, matching the end of Fitzgerald's life.
ReplyDeleteI think that in this book that Gatsby will have internal problems like Fitzgerald did, maybe with alcohol or women
ReplyDeleteHis life runes in parallel with Gatsby.
ReplyDeleteI believe that an important thing I learned in the video was that he got caught up in love and thats what drove him to be richer
ReplyDeleteI predict that the Great Gatsby will be about the struggles and strengths people had in the 1920's.
ReplyDeleteI learned that he was always wanting to be in the spotlight and throughout his life he was and then wasn't parts
ReplyDeleteWatching this biography definitely made me realize that Fitzgerald was taking a lot of things for granted that he should've appreciated more.
ReplyDeleteThe life of Great Gatsby will be rich, crazy, adventurous, but there will be something that he hides away that will bring him down.
ReplyDeleteIt was really sad seeing his life be destroyed again and again by his alcohol problem.
ReplyDeleteI learned that Fitzgerald had a need to be successful and would do anything to get there.
ReplyDeleteI just found it interesting how fast his life crumbled.
ReplyDeleteI learned that he incorporated parts of his life into many of his stories.
ReplyDeleteI think it's sad how much of his life was ruined because of his drinking problem.
ReplyDeleteI think the gatsby will feature a lot of topics having to do with glamorous parties, similar to Fitzgerald's jazz age.
ReplyDeleteI learned there were times in his life where he was a heavy drinker
ReplyDeleteI think that its really important to know that his writing was mainly reflective of his life, but also sad that he let his drinking problem completely take over.
ReplyDeletealcohol and his relationships
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Fitzgerald was self-aware enough about the negative impact alcohol had on his life to include alcoholism in his writing.
ReplyDeleteFitzgerald used his own life as inspiration for his books.
ReplyDeleteA lot of his life was portrayed in his books
ReplyDeleteI learned that Fitzgerald had to rise above many downfalls and depression factors in his life and was a big believer in the American Dream
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I think his drinking is gonna play a big part in the story
ReplyDeleteFitzgerald was a drunk, but a talented drunk.
ReplyDeleteI predict the book will end positively for gatsby because it is a reflection of Fitzgerald and he would want a hopeful future for himself.
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