Symbols, Mood, and Characterization in Gatsby

 Today's Agenda:

• 1920s Exam
• Presentation feedback - 
• Chapter 7 Gatsby

HW:  finish chapters 8 and 9 in Gatsby

The 1920s\the Great Gatsby

"The Jazz Singer" 1927
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Today's Agenda:

• Review of the 1920s.
• Chapters 6 "Facts"
• Chapter 7 - Logistics

Tomorrow: Unit Exam on the 1920s-Pageant chapters 32 and 33

Native American Photography: Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota

1920s/The Great Gatsby

Today's Agenda:

• Gatsby Chapter 6

• Presentation:
• Lindbergh
• Hoover/Stock Market Crash

Tomorrow: Gatsby Chapter 7 is due

Friday: Pageant Exam    

Alli singing the National Anthem at last Friday night's basketball game here at SHS!                                                   

Tuesday Feb. 18

We are being dismissed at 12 today, so we will not meet as a class. Thus:

• We are not going to finish Gatsby this week. Review chapter 6 for a possible quiz tomorrow.
• The last two presentations need to present tomorrow, so that we can wrap up the history of the 1920s.
• There will be a Pageant Exam on Friday on Chapters 32-33. 

The Century: America's Time does a nice job of explaining the major events of each decade of the 20th Century in about 45 minutes. Here is the link to the episode on the 1920s. It may help you with some of the concepts that we covered.

1920s/The Great Gatsby

Today's Agenda:

• Chapter 5:  Motifs and Symbols
• Group Activity
• Essential Question:  How do the motifs and symbols in chapter five work together?
• Review chapters 1-4 Activity
• What do we know about Gatsby?
• Chapter 6 Discussion - Love: Can it and does "old" love last?
• Chapter 6 Characterization of Gatsby

Opportunity: the Players Ring in Portsmouth NH is performing Death of a Salesman Feb. 14-Mar. 2. Eventually, we will read this play!

Calendar

Not sure if you can see the calendar, but blogging this week are Janny, Kerri, Emma, and Pat.

College Visits Project

Here is the list of college selections.

1920s/The Great Gatsby

Today's Agenda:

Thursday and Friday's Presentations

• Communist Scare
• Saco and Vanzetti
• Scopes Monkey Trial
• Hoover and the FBI

1920s/The Great Gatsby

Today's Agenda:

Discussion: Margaret Sanger Spirit reading. "Examining the moral code of the 1920s versus the moral code of today."

Continue Gatsby Chapter 4

1920s/The Great Gatsby

Today's Agenda:

• Chapter 4 of Gatsby
• Presentations:
• Resurgence of the KKK
• Al Capone/Organized Crime

HW: Spirit reading on Margaret Sanger

"KKK Parade" Washington DC 1925

1920s/The Great Gatsby

Today's Agenda:

• President Harding Presentation (from Friday)
• Chapter 3 in Gatsby

Check the calendar to see who is blogging this week.

1920s/The Great Gatsby

Today's Agenda:

Hardings and Coolidges 1921
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• The Charleston
• Gatsby-Chapter 2
• 2 presentations
• President Harding
• President Coolidge

HW: Continue reading and taking good notes on Gatsby and Chapters 32-33 in Pageant

Extra: Amazon produced a list of the 100 books that you should read in your lifetime. I have read 20 of them, and Gatsby made the list!

1920s/The Great Gatsby

Today's Agenda:

• Collect the Blog Rubrics that you wrote comments on.
• 2 presentations today
• Entertainment
• Harlem Renn.
• Gatsby Chapter 2

Extra: I watched this documentary last night on HBO called "Manhunt" about Osama bin Laden that was really well done! I linked the website and trailer.

Wednesday February 5th

The class discussion yesterday got me thinking about tone, and whether or not it is possible to be critical and still maintain a positive tone. So, I decided to try to take our 3 examples from class and try to say the same thing but with a more positive tone. Here is a link to the document and check out what I came up with.

Tuesday Feb. 4, 2014

I forgot to collect the Blog Rubrics from the class. Hang on to them, and I will collect them tomorrow or Thursday depending on the weather. People commented on the rubric and I would like to read them. Thanks

Characterization and Imagery

Today's Agenda:

• The Blogging Rubric
• College Project - hand out and discuss
• Chapter 1 Gatsby - characterization
• Chapter 1 Gatsby - imagery
• Director's License/Intent - 
• How does a director use imagery in a text?
• What is the effect of changing characterization?
• Word Choice/Imagery/Characterization in Chapter 2

HW:  Chapter 2 Gatbsy

Societal Expectations 1920s

Today's Agenda:

• Collect Works Cited/Picture Attribution
• Links - share them with us via email
• Chapter 1 Gatsby
• Presentations - Flappers and Prohibition

HW:  Chapter 2 due Wednesday/Begin reading Chapter 33 in Pageant

"Where There's Smoke, There's Fire"
by Ruben Patterson
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The Great Gatsby/1920s

Weekend Reminders:

Chapter 1 is due in the Great Gatsby: Read, analyze, and take good notes. The new film is interesting, but it is different from the novel!

Check the calendar. The presentation schedule is up, so you can see when you are presenting your 1920s project.

"F. Scott Fitzgerald and Wife Zelda 1921"
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