The Great Gatsby -- Chapter 4

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*Transformational Thinking Essay -- I would like to take a brief look at one essay and discuss features of a successful essay.

 

*The Great Gatsby -- Yesterday you completed questions on Chapter 3

 

*The Great Gatsby -- Chapter 4

 

HOMEWORK:  Independent reading.  Study vocabulary to The Great Gatsby.  Have a great Spring Break! 

The Great Gatsby -- Chapter 3 Questions

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Please get your netbook when you arrive.

ASSIGNMENT:  Copy Chapter 3 questions into your ENGLISH JOURNAL and complete by the end of the period.
                        

 Chapter 3 Questions

1. What were some of the impressive preparations done for Gatsby's parties?
2.  What kind of people come to Gatsby's parties?
3.  Why did Nick Carraway go to the party?
4.  What are some of the stories about Gatsby?
5.  How does Nick meet Gatsby?
6.  What is Nick's initial impression of Gatsby?  Quote some lines.
7.  What is the contrast between Gatsby and his party? 
8.  What impression of the society depicted are you left with at the end of the party?
9.  Describe Nick's relationship with Jordan.
10. What character trait does Nick discover about Jordan?
11. Quote a line that describes New York.
12. Quote a line that describes Nick's feelings in New York.
13.  What other line caught your attention?
14.  What other line caught your attention?
15.  What other line caught your attention?


Homework:  Independent reading.  Study the vocabulary to The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby -- Chapter 3

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 *Yesterday you completed questions in your English Journal on Chapter 2 of The Great Gatsby.

*The Great Gatsby - Chapter 3
 
*HOMEWORK:  Independent reading.  Study the vocabulary to The Great Gatsby

                                      

The Great Gatsby -- Chapter Two Questions

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Please get your netbook when you arrive.  

Please copy the following questions into your English Journal.  Use a different text color for your answers and skip some space between each question.

 The Great Gatsby -- Chapter Two questions

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.   Quote the words that describe George Wilson.

5.   Describe Myrtle, Tom's mistress.

6.   Where did they go?  What was at 158th Street?

7.   Who are Mr. and Mrs. McKee?

8.  In the course of the evening, how does Myrtle's

     behavior change?

9.   According to Catherine, Myrtle's sister, what

      prevents Tom from marrying Myrtle?  What

      is the truth?

10. What reason does Myrtle give for marrying

       George?  What does she find out after they are
       married?

11. What did Tom do to Myrtle when she 

       mentioned Daisy's name?  Why does he

       respond like this?

12.  What is your reaction to the final lines of this 

       chapter?

13.  Give at least one example of a reference

        made to socio-economic status in this

        chapter.

14.  Explain the following line: "I was within 

        and without, simultaneously enchanted

        and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

15.  Record a line that caught your attention:

HOMEWORK:  Independent reading.  Study vocabulary.

The Great Gatsby -- Chapter Two

Good Morning!

 I hope that you had an enjoyable weekend!

REMINDER:  You are to have your cell phone put away through the duration of class.  If you are using it during class, it will be confiscated.

  

Note:  You have an independent reading book underway.  This is just a reminder of the requirement for this six weeks.  

*Transformational Thinking Essay -- I am still working on these essays.  I will be done by the end of the week, if not sooner.  

*The Great Gatsby -- You have completed questions to Chapter One in your English Journal.  

*The Great Gatsby -- Chapter Two

HOMEWORK:  Independent reading.  Study vocabulary to The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby -- Chapter One Questions

Good Morning!

Please get your netbook when you arrive. 

ASSIGNMENT:
*Please copy the following questions into your ENGLISH JOURNAL and complete by the end of class.  Be sure to select a different color for your answers and to skip appropriate space between each question.

The Great Gatsby -- Chapter One Questions

1.   What advice does Nick's father give him and what is Nick's response to this advice?
2.   How does the  narrator describe Gatsby? (What is so attractive about Gatsby?)
3.   From where did the narrator come and why?
4.   Describe the narrator's house. Where is it located?
5.   Describe the Buchanan house.
6.   How does Nick know Daisy and Tom?
7.   Describe Tom.  What is our impression of him in Chapter One?
8.   What kind of person is Daisy?  What is your impression of her?
 9.   What did Miss Baker tell Nick about Tom?
10.  Why does Daisy hope her daughter will be a beautiful fool?
11.  Why is Nick a little disgusted when he leaves the Buchanan's?
12.  How is Gatsby introduced into the novel? 
13.  A line that caught my attention:
14.  A line that caught my attention:
15.  A line that caught my attention: 

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading.  Study vocabulary to The Great Gatsby (handout)

The Great Gatsby -- Chapter One

Good Morning!

While I am taking attendance, please let me see you have your copy of The Great Gatsby open.  You might review what we have read or peer ahead.

*Vocabulary -- we are going to study some new words.  As we progress through the novel, I would like you to make it your business to learn these words.  There will be a test at the end of our reading.  We will review as we go along.

*The Great Gatsby -- Chapter One

HOMEWORK: Independent reading.  Study vocabulary. 

The Great Gatsby -- Chapter One

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*Homework -- I will be ready to collect the homework right away. The homework was to record ten important points from the "Preface" to The Great Gatsby.  The points are numbered, and you have skipped a line between each on the paper I supplied to you.

 

*The Great Gatsby  --  Setting & Characters
   
    Long Island Mansions


Homework:  Independent reading book

Historical Context Topics

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NOTE: By now, you should have selected your independent reading for this six weeks.  You will be doing this reading mainly outside of class because I am going to ask you to be reading The Great Gatsby  during quiet reading in class (whether it be rereading what we have read or going ahead in the reading).

*Homework -- I will collect this right away. Be sure that it is complete.

*Historical Context for The Great Gatsby  -- please be ready to come to the front of the room to inform the class on your topic. You will be called by the number of your topic, starting with #1.

HOMEWORK: Please read the "Preface" to The Great Gatsby.  Record 10 important points that relate to the novel.  *Number each point and skip a line between each. We will begin reading Chapter One tomorrow.

The Great Gatsby

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I hope that you had an enjoyable weekend!

*The Great Gatsby -- we will go to the library at the beginning of class to check out the novel.  When we return, please get your netbook, and I will then explain the introductory assignment to The Great Gatsby.

1.  The Great Gatsby -- Today we will be doing a little bit of research on the period of The Great Gatsby.  What was culture like during the period of The Great Gatsby?  Describe the 1920's.  What made it unique?  Are there any similarities with today's culture?
Find some interesting facts to share in class discussion. Read your assigned article and find 10 interesting/important facts. Record these facts on the handout provided so you will have notes to refer to when you share the information with the class.  We will share these facts tomorrow so begin promptly and be prepared to share.
 

1. The Lost Generation
 
2.   Al Capone

     Al Capone
 
3.  Prohibition
 
4.  Bootlegging

5.  Jazz More Jazz 

     The Jazz Age

6.  Flapper Culture
 
7. Popular Culture  
    The Roaring Twenties  


Homework:  Textbook assignment (handout)



 

Transformational Thinking Essay

Good Morning!

Please get your netbook when you arrive.

Note: Monday we check out The Great Gatsby.  Please be prepared to do that with your ID and taking care of any fines that you may owe.  For the next six weeks you are required to select only one independent reading book of your choosing.  Please make that selection by next Monday.

*Transformational Thinking Essay -- A fully completed final draft of your essay is due today.  Please work toward that end today.  PROOFREAD CAREFULLY for sentence sense, punctuation, proper capitalization, AND contractions (which you are to eliminate).

HOMEWORK:  Please select your independent reading for this six weeks.

Transformational Thinking Essay

Good Morning!

Please get your netbook when you arrive.

Note: Monday we check out The Great Gatsby.  Please be prepared to do that with your ID and taking care of any fines that you may owe.  For the next six weeks you are required to select only one independent reading book of your choosing.  Please make that selection by next Monday.

*Transformational Thinking Essay -- A fully completed final draft of your essay is due tomorrow.  Please work toward that end today.

HOMEWORK:  Transformational Thinking Essay

Transformational Thinking Essay

Good Morning!

*Thank you for working so quietly on the EAP Assessment Test yesterday and doing your best!

*NOTE: Next Monday we will be checking out The Great Gatsby from the library.  Please be prepared with your ID, etc.  Because we will be reading this novel in class, the independent reading requirement for the next six weeks will be one book of your choosing.

*Transformational Thinking Essay -- We need to be done with this essay by Friday.  A completed final draft is due Friday. Please work toward that end today.  I will be looking at your progress.

HOMEWORK:  Transformational Thinking Essay.

EAP Assessment Test

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Today you are taking the EAP Test.  Please fill out the information at the top only:

 Student Name:                                       Teacher: Baltrushes

School: Point Loma High School    District: San Diego Unified 

                                                                    School District

In BOX #4 bubble in the Version number of your test.

Do the best you can!

Transformational Thinking

Good Morning!  

I hope that you had an enjoyable weekend!

Please get your netbook when you arrive.

*EAP Prompt -- tomorrow is the EAP Writing Assessment Test.  Today we will briefly look at a sample prompt.

*Transformational Thinking Essay -- continue working on your essay.  Wednesday is the target date for a complete draft.

HOMEWORK: Transformational Thinking Essay.  Please work on the essay at home.

Transformational Thinking Essay

Good Morning & Happy Friday!

REMINDER -- keep your cell phone and/or Ipod out of sight.

NOTE: When you are absent from class, please look at my blog to see what you need to make up.  I try to remember indicating if there is a handout for that day in which case you need to get it upon your return.  Checking Powerschool to see what you have missed is not the process.

*Goodreads Book Reviews -- I will show you my spreadsheet so you can confirm that the URL to your published Goodreads page was properly sent.  Book Reviews are due this period.

*Transformational Thinking Essay -- Please continue writing today.  I have been very pleased to see your focus in class.  Keep up the good work!  A fully completed draft is due next Wednesday.

HOMEWORK:  Continue working on the Transformational Thinking Essay with an eye toward a completed draft by next Wednesday, March 12th.

Transformational Thinking Essay

Good Morning!

Please get your netbook when you arrive.

NOTE: Two book reviews are due by tomorrow.  I will see in my spreadsheet the URL's of your two reviews.  You have closely followed the rubric, and I will see spacing between each paragraph.  You also have carefully composed your sentences and punctuated correctly.

*Transformational Thinking Essay -- Today you will continue working on this essay.  I was very pleased with your quiet and focused efforts yesterday.

HOMEWORK: Two book reviews on Goodreads

Transformational Thinking Essay

Good Morning!

Please get your netbook when you arrive and read quietly until we are ready to begin.

* Transformational Thinking Essay -- Yesterday I presented the essay assignment that concludes this unit and indicated to you that we would be working on this essay in class over the next few days.  Please be ready to focus on this assignment with the goal of completing the writing by next Wednesday. NOTE: Tuesday, March 11th is the EAP writing test.  For today, let's complete the Introduction to the essay.

Gandhi Quotes

 HOMEWORK: Two book reviews are to be posted on Goodreads by Friday.  Be sure to fill out the form for book review URL under "Important Links" on my blog.  

"Stride Towards Freedom"

Good Morning!

Please get your netbook when you arrive and read quietly until we are ready to begin.

 

*"Stride Towards Freedom"  -- yesterday you read and responded to this excerpt from King's 1958 book about the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott.  

*Transformational Thinking Writing Prompt -- today we will begin the final essay to this unit which brings together the four thinkers that we have studied.  Please go to your Google Docs and create a new document which you will name Period __ Transformational Thinking Essay.  THEN, share this with me immediately: abaltrushes@gmail.com      (HANDOUT)

*For today -- I would like us to get started on the introductory paragraph today.  You will be writing in class over the next few days.  

HOMEWORK:  Two book reviews are to be posted on Goodreads by Friday.  Be sure to follow the rubric and show paragraphing with the appropriate space between each.

"Stride Towards Freedom"

Good Morning!  I hope that you had a very enjoyable weekend!

Please read quietly until we are ready to begin.  (We will not be using the netbooks today).

 

*NOTE: the end of the grading period is this Friday.  You are to have posted on Goodreads two book reviews.  The deadline is Friday at class time.  I will see the URL of your Goodreads page at that time.

*Transformational Thinking Unit -- we are near the end of this study and will conclude it with an essay that I will introduce to you tomorrow.  Right along I have been speaking of this essay assignment which will bring together the four thinkers that we have studied -- Emerson, Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.  

 

*"Stride Towards Freedom" -- reading for supporting ideas.  Read quietly and carefully.  Complete the details on the lines provided and write a response at the end.  Use every line.  (HANDOUT)

HOMEWORK:  Complete two book reviews on Goodreads and share the URL with me by filling out the form under "Important Links" on my blog.  Be sure to follow the rubric and provide clear spacing between each paragraph.