Writing Your Way to Complexity: April 20, 2017

Focus: How can we write our way to a better understanding of Fitzgerald's themes?

1. Warming up by reading the reminders you wrote to yourself yesterday and rereading the prompt

2. Composing your timed writing (55 minutes)

• Click here if you need an online version of the prompts and rubric.

3. Using the rubric to edit your essay

4. Submitting your essay to www.turnitin.com

HW:
1. If you had issues submitting your essay to www.turnitin.com, please take care of that tonight by midnight. If you need extra time to finish your essay, please take care of that tonight; cap yourself at 15 minutes.

2. 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 (so good), it's being turned into an HBO movie. You can check it out here.

3. If you have not yet finished your Gatsby blogs or fishbowl comments, please do so by this Friday at the latest.