Daily Log

Thursday, May 28

Students received copies of (1) The Great Gatsby and (2) a worksheet to be used tracing the intricate patterns of imagery for which the book is noted.

Mr. Potratz read aloud several of the students' HW paragraphs on "the American Dream," and we discussed the implications and contradictions of that concept, which is so often seen -- with good reason -- as central to Fitzgerald's novel.