Thursday, November 30, 2017

Belated Post - B Day Students - 29 November 2017

Yesterday, I could have sworn I wrote the blog post, but it appears it got lost in the flood. I apologize for the lateness!

English IV

Yesterday, we started class with less focus than ideal, but we turned it around and you all came up with some pretty fantastic group presentations. I was really thrilled with how creative and funny you were with your interpretations of Twelfth Night. Tomorrow, let's make sure we're on-task and with it from the jump, we have lots of work to complete. Looking forward to seeing everybody, Friday should be a blast!

AP English III

Yesterday, we did some pretty in-depth analysis of The Great Gatsby Chapter 6. We thought a lot about the importance of identity, especially as it relates to the Jay Gatsby/James Gatz question. We also had a thought-provoking conversation about how we can think about the Gatsby dilemma in comparison to gender identity and expression in the modern United States. For class tomorrow, please read and thoroughly annotate Chapter 7, with a couple questions in mind:

1. Is Jay Gatsby good?
2. What are some modern comparisons we can make to The Great Gatsby? These can be fictional or based on true life.

Again, sorry for the delay on the post, can't wait to see you all tomorrow!

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