AP 3: Gatsby Seminar Round 2

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AP3: Gatsby Seminar Round 1

Please post your comments to today's socratic seminar here.

Remember your pointers for improving tomorrow's seminar:

1. Be sure to involve all members in the discussion.
2. Use the hot seat judiciously.
3. Support your ideas with the text.

AP3: Gatsby Chapter 2

Continue our class discussion in the comment section:

Does "class" prohibit people from participating in the American Dream?

Nick as narrator: attitude towards other characters?

Discuss the narrative structure. From where in time & space is Nick narrating these events? Where do you sense a shift? (most obvious in Ch. 1).

HW: Chapter 3

ENG1: Night, cont.

SSR: Night pgs 34-39

Dialectical Journal #3

Finish Vocab Dictionaries (due tomorrow).

Class discussion

AP3: Begin Creative Writing Mini-Unit

Using concrete details describe:

a penny

Cody's actions while reading the newspaper

this photograph

See handout for the first poetry assignment: due Tuesday, May 26th.

ENG1: DJ* Grading

-*Dialectical Journal Grading

-Read/discuss Night

-Motifs/Theme

-Autobiography vs. Memoir

AP3: Welcome to The Great Gatsby

Post AP Exam Survey

Journal Write: What is class? What determines class? Since "all men are created equal," the U.S. is an egalitarian (classless) society. Agree / Disagree? Explain.

Great Gatsby discussion

Homework: Post your response to the Journal Write in the comments. Also respond to two other students.

Directions to post comments:
1. Select the "comments" link in the white space below these directions.
2. Write your comments.
3. In the "Comment as" drop-down select "Name/URL."
4. Identify yourself by first name only, and a last initial if necessary.
5. In the URL box write: fvhs.com
6. Hit "post comment," then enter the keyword as instructed.