Daily Log

Tuesday. May 25

Students provided CDs from Chapter 8 of Gatsby, after which we examined the passage on page 117 where Gatsby sees the ladder and creates Daisy as the incarnation of his vision, as well as the passage on page 104 in which Jay Gatsby is presented as springing from "his Platonic conception of himself." Plato's Ladder of Love (from The Symposium) was presented in explanatiion of these puzzling -- and central -- passages.

Mr. P announced that booklets must be completed by a week from today, Tuesday, June 1 (6 of 11 categories crammed full: at least 80 entries total).

The deadline for Outside Reading papers was moved to Friday, June 4.

HW due tomorrow:
Finish The Great Gatsby. CDs from Chap. 9.