Happy Thanksgiving!

• Chapter 7 of Gatsby is due on 12/3
• Chapters 8 and 9 are due on 12/7

Enjoy your Thanksgiving!

Moday 11/23

• We read chapter 5 of Gatsby in class, and we discussed whether we felt we could trust Nick and whether we believed that Gatsby and Daisy were in love at the end of chapter 5.
• Chapter 6 is due for Wednesday.

There will be no additional reading homework over Thanksgiving. Enjoy your break.

In class

In class we viewed and took notes on the following TED talk: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+spot+a+liar+ted&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

• We took a quiz on chapters 3 and 4

• We also discussed the lies and rumors in Gatsby chapters 3 and 4.

Block 5

• If you did not complete your character analysis paper in class, it is due in class on Thursday.

For class on Tuesday!

• Be sure that your Notice and Focus sheet is completed. If you were unable to complete the sheet in class you will need to complete it in the ERC.  You will not be able to complete this without reading Gatsby chapters 1 and 2.
• We will be writing a character analysis piece on your assigned character in class on Tuesday.

Moore                                                                                             Name

Analysis Rubric

QUESTION:____________________________________________________________________________

Remember that when you read you might consider the following list helpful for making your observations.

·        Important words or word choice

·        Patterns

·        Binaries (opposites)

·        Making the implicit explicit (Making things obvious that might not seem obvious)

·        How the piece is put together (Structure of the passage, sentence, chapter etc.)

·        Repetitions

·        Anomalies

·        Literary Devices

Observations      (Complete this first)                              Interpretive Leap (Complete AFTER observations)

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Rough Draft of claim/thesis (In other words, how would you now answer the question you posed at the top of the sheet) :  ____________________________________________________________________

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Revision of claim/thesis (Revise for precision and clarity):__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Homework for Friday's class

• Read The Great Gatsby chapters 1-2
• Fill out the LEFT side of the discussion questions
• Link to the article we listened to in class today: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/10/28/452652731/thousands-of-soldiers-with-mental-health-disorders-kicked-out-for-misconduct

Homework for Friday 11/6

• Be sure to write your vignette. The topic of the vignette is: A Memory that is important to you. Be sure to use the techniques we learned in September to write a compelling story: dialogue, showing, style, characterization, voice and symbol.