Today's class was focused on close reading and analysis of Joan Didion's "On Keeping a Notebook" - we focused on the way in which she creates a very unique voice in this text through her use of details, shifts, and interesting flashes of memory. As we did this work, we were analyzing the text to consider her main ideas for us on truth, memory, and accuracy. All of these are significant ideas as we begin with The Great Gatsby.
For tonight, your assignment is to read and annotate Andrew Carnegie's "Wealth". In this text he reflects on the burden and responsibility of the wealthy toward society. This is a great text before we get into Gatsby since all of those characters are ridiculously wealthy - you may want to consider how they do or do not follow Carnegie's ideas.
Remember that your websites are due by the end of the day on Wednesday. Submit the link so that I can review your work.
English 10
Today was a day for us to really begin in earnest on our final project for this unit - our soundtrack of our characters' lives. By this point you should know which character you're focused on and what the general trajectory of their life is. We watched a video on album cover design and then took those ideas to heart as we began to craft our album covers for our project. Remember that part one and two of this project are very simple. Next class we'll start with part three - our paragraphs.
At the end of our creation time we took time to read and complete tasks. If you are missing vocabulary or your character tracker, I hope that you were able to get that complete during today's reading/working time. Be sure to submit anything that's missing - our unit will be ending next week!
