Chapter 6 The Great Gatsby

Today, we will finish Chapter 6 and take a quiz. 
Yesterday, we took a quiz on Chapter 5.

We will start Chapter 6 

You will continue taking notes in your English Journal for each chapter

Finish Chapter 5 for HW

You will have a quiz tomorrow

Chapter 5 The Great Gatsby

Yesterday, we took Chp. 3 & 4 Quiz. You can make quizzes up at lunch if you are absent.

Today, go to m.socrative.com and join Room 0453

You can read Chapter 5 of the Great Gatsby here.

Today, You will begin taking your own notes for each chapter instead of answering questions.
Notes should include:

• main events
• new characters 
• character's actions or dialogue that seem important 
• your impressions 
• your questions / observations about what the characters are doing and why 

Your homework for this week:

1. Read Article of the week: Class Divisions

Complete a brief summary / reflection of the article on paper or Google Docs / Drive

Directions: 

Title: Per. Name Class Divisions

Include the following: 

• Include title, author, where article is from 
• brief summary - 1-2 sentences 
• What do you think about the points in this article? Use different quotes to respond to (2-4) 
• 1 page written / 1/2 page typed single spaced 
• Due Thursday: March 28th beginning of class 

Chapter 4 The Great Gatsby

  Read Chapter 4 by Monday. Be prepared to discuss Chapter 3 & 4. 

Set up your journal #4 with one of the following sets of Questions. 

4. The Great Gatsby Chapter 4

Choice A:

1. Who is Klipspringer?
2. What does Gatsby tell Nick about himself?
3. What "matter" did Gatsby have Jordan Baker discuss with Nick?
4. Who is Wolfshiem?
5. What does Wolfshiem tell Nick about Gatsby?
6. What does Jordan tell Nick about Daisy, Gatsby and Tom?

Choice B: 

1. Describe the conversation between Nick and Gatsby and Gatsby's actions in the first part of the chapter. What is your impression of Gatsby? Why? 

2. What is your impression of Wolfsheim and what does his frienship with Gatsby say about Gatsby? 

3. At the end of the chapter, what do you think Nick should do? Why?

Chapter 3 Great Gatsby

Here is the link to Chapter 3 
Please paste Choice A OR B into your journal after you take Quiz 2

3. The Great Gatsby Chapter 3

Choice A
1. Describe Gatsby’s Wealth.
2. What kind of people come to Gatsby’s parties?
3. How does Nick meet Gatsby?
4. What are some of the stories about Gatsby?
5. Is Gatsby a “phony”
6. Describe Nick’s relationship with Jordan.

or  Choice B

1. How is the party in chapter 2 different from the party in chapter 3? How is it similar? What kind of lifestyle do these parties represent?

   

2. Jordan and Nick run into a man in the library. What is this man so excited about? (p. 46)

Why does Fitzgerald include this scene?

         

3. Why were most of the women fighting with their husbands by the end of the party? What is Fitgerald’s view of marriage among the wealthy?

4. What is your impression of Jay Gatsby? Give page numbers and specific support/examples.

Chapter 2 The Great Gatsby

Cut and paste one of the following into your English Journal #2. Here is the link to Chapter 2. 2. Chapter 2 The Great Gatsby Choice A 

1. What is the valley of ashes?
2. What are the "eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg"?
3. Who did Tom take Nick to meet?
4. Who are George and Myrtle Wilson?
5. What did Mrs. Wilson buy while she was out with Nick and Tom?
6. Where did they go? What was at 158th Street?
7. Who are Catherine and Mr. and Mrs. McKee?
8. What does Catherine tell Nick about Gatsby?
9. What reason does Myrtle give for marrying George Wilson?
10. What did Tom do to Myrtle when she mentioned Daisy's name?

Choice B 
1. Describe the new characters you have met in a few sentences for each character. 2. Fitzgerald has created a hodgepodge of characters here to create a certain effect and get you to think about people. Describe what you think each character represents and why? 3. What do you think Fitzgerald wants his readers to realize about people? 

• Example: Nick represents the outsider, because he is always looking in and attempting to describe things as if he doesn't understand. 

Friday March 15 Homework Chp. 1 Gatsby

Finish Great Gatsby - Chapter 1
Be prepared for a reading check on Monday.

Chapter 1 The Great Gatsby

 Today, we start Chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby.

 This Link will take you to it.

1. Open your English Journal. Copy and paste these Questions into your English Journal. We will answer them as we go along. These will be your notes.
Choice A: 

1. How does the narrator describe Gatsby?
2. From where does the narrator come and why?
3. Describe the narrator's house.
4. Describe the Buchannans' house.
5. How does Nick know Tom and Daisy?
6. Describe Tom. What is our impression of him in chapter 1?
7.  What kind of person is Daisy?
8. What did Jordan Baker tell Nick about Tom?
9. When asked about her daughter, what does Daisy say?
10. How is Gatsby introduced in the novel? When do we first "see" him?  

Choice B: Describe your first impression of the characters in the first Chapter.

Culture & Great Gatsby

Take a minute to find some interesting facts to share in today's discussion?

What was culture like around the period of the Great Gatsby? Describe the 1920's - What made it unique?
Are there any similarities with today's culture?
Skim the article, find 2-3 facts to share in the discussion.

1. Writers during the 1920's
The author, F. Scott Fitzgerald 
The Lost Generation 
2. Gangsters
 Al Capone
Al Capone cont. 
3. Prohibition, making alcohol illegal
Prohibition & the Not-So Roaring 20's
4. Bootlegging 
History of Bootlegging
5.  Jazz 
More Jazz
6.Flapper Culture 
7. Popular Culture 
8. One Perspective on the American Dream 

Revisit the Expert Project

Coming back to your expert project... YOU SHOULD HAVE 4-5 blogs posts completed by the end of this week.
You might be behind on your expert project research, but this week is for you to catch up.
Today you will be doing some scholarly searching on your topic.
If you haven’t already shared the link to your blog please fill out this form.

1. Find an article or resource closely related to your research question. (example: Topic - gun violence related topic - brain research and violence or new gun laws) 
Finding scholarly articles ...use: 
http://scholar.google.com/
or SIRS (username CA1471 PSWD: 92106)
or Elibrary on library homepage(username: plhs password: welcome)

2. Post a link to what you found on your blog in a new post. 
Use the rest of the post to explain and summarize what you found. Be thorough:

Summary should include: title, author, 2-4 sentence summary of article, why is this significant to you and others, may include:  a personal reaction to a quote from the article,  conclude with questions you have about topic, conclusions you have made, recommendations for people to think about.

3. Add a citation for what you found to your expert project notes in Google Docs. 
Copy and paste URL of article into citation machine or easy bib then paste into your notes

4. Find a 2nd article from a different perspective and write another blog post First, re-read your last blog post.  Then continue searching for information on your topic.  This time try to find an article or resource that presents a different view of your topic from the last article.

Example: Topic - gun control
You could “find” this NYT article “In Gun Debate, A Misguided Focus on Mental Illness” and then also find this blog post from the Anarchist Soccer Mom, http://anarchistsoccermom.blogspot.com/2012/12/thinking-unthinkable.html.  

Post a link to what you find today on your blog and use the rest of the post to summarize what you found out. Be specific and detailed. Add the citation to your notes.

Hello From Mrs. Murphy

Hi,
I have missed you all a lot and am anxious to see what you have been up to and continue working with you this year.

1. Write me a note - Fill out this form
2. Look at Transformation Paper Rubric
3. Test Yourself - Grade these papers with a partner using the 1 - 6 scale
4. Now look at your paper and at the bottom of your Transformation Paper write what grade you think you should get and why
Include reasons from the rubric and explain where in your essay you show this.

Example: 
Score 5
My essay is strong, but not superior, because I show clear ideas from all 4 authors, give examples in every paragraph, and have strong organization. I may have some grammar mistakes and I didn't understand Thoreau as much as I wanted to. My example on Ghandi and how he connects to the current day peaceful protesters is my strongest point. Another weak point is my conclusion since I don't know what I want to say exactly, but my tone is confident.

Tips for Transformation Paper: 
Make sure your paper....

• is titled: Per Name Civil Disobedience or Transformational Thinking 
• Make sure you have headers and a title on the actual paper 

Jennifer Murphy 

English, Per. 7

March 1, 2013

Civil Disobedience: a continuing idea 

• Avoid I, phrases like "in class we discussed" or " thoreau was a great guy" 
• use transitions: Additionally, Similar to Thoreau is another man by the name of... , Also fighting for justice...
• share with me at jenmurphy11@gmail.com 

Last Day!

Today we will be putting the final touches on your essay!

Today will also be my last day teaching all of you wonderful students!  It has been my pleasure to work with all of you and I'm sad to go, but Mrs. Murphy is very excited to get back to work with you guys.

Remember today is the LAST DAY to turn in any missing assignments so check your grades.

Also, before you begin reading if you could take the time to FILL OUT THIS FORM and give me some feedback on your experience having me as your teacher I would greatly appreciate it.  This will help me to make changes/improvements for future classrooms.

Thanks Again