Daily Log

Friday, May 28

Mr. P projected and explained the unit test on The Great Gatsby, which students will take on Wednesday. That explanation follows:

On Wednesday you are to bring your books and completed booklets to class for the unit test on The Great Gatsby. There will be two questions, one of my choosing and one of yours.

Each question will require you to show how an important theme of Gatsby is expressed through a certain motif.

For the first question I will select a passage from the book which expresses a theme and specify a motif, or cluster of images. You are to show how the specified motif works to convey the theme, citing examples (CDs) you have noted in your booklet, with accom-panying commentary (CM). You must cite page numbers for your quotations.

The second question will be the same except that you must select the quotation and specify the theme.

Students were advised that if they wish to be sure to write on a given question of their own devising they should prepare two in case their first choice overlaps with the required question.

Students were also reminded that searching the text of Gatsby online over the weekend may be very helpful in supplementing the entries in their motif booklets, which are due in class Tuesday. The recommended source is:
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/gatsby/

Once their students can choose to either download the text as a file or to link to a single online file of the novel and do a 'find' search for given words and phrases.

HW due Tuesday:
Motif booklet with at least 80 entries