1. Warming up with my feedback on your "Road Not Taken" timed writings (5-10 minutes)
Start your document for tomorrow:
- Call it "Great Gatsby Official Timed Writing."
- Place it in your "Wealth and Power" or "Gatsby" folder (whatever you called it).
- Type the reminders below at the top of your document, as well as the individual GOAL from your "Road Not Taken" rubric.
Three tiny reminders:
- Avoid "you" and "your." Try "we" and "our."
- Avoid stating "This quote..." Lead out with some literary lingo or a statement about the author's intent.
- Here's an example: Instead of saying, "This quote reveals that the speaker feels ambivalent," try saying, "The two roads symbolize the speaker's ambivalence," or the "Frost emphasizes the speaker's ambivalence."
- Show off your newly discovered close reading skills.
2. Offering you an overview of our investigative journalism unit (see website for links to letter, book list, and bookmark)
3. Watching and voting on top American documentaries
- When you finished watching all of the trailers, click HERE to vote on your top three.
Here are the trailer links:
Hoop Dreams
4. Forming investigative journalism book clubs by selecting your partners and books
HW:
1. Complete your book club letter and have your book IN YOUR HANDS when you walk in on Monday, April 24. Also, if you're thinking about The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (it's so good), it's being turned into an HBO movie. You can check it out here.
2. If you have not yet finished your Gatsby blogs or fishbowl comments, please do so by this Friday at the latest.
3. Prepare for tomorrow's timed writing by forming your thesis and gathering your three quotations; if you wish, you may also do an outline.
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