Daily Log

Tuesday, May 17

We began reading The Great Gatsby, focusing on the first two pages and their oblique introduction of the narrator and his subject Gatsby, about whom the narrator is of two very different minds. A capacity for hope -- a sensitivity to the promises of life -- unites the two, yet Nick has for Gatsby and everything he represents "an unaffected scorn."

We identified details which may prove to be significant and recorded them in the character booklets under different headings; these included details of East and West (Geography and Locations), Autumn and Spring (Time, Clocks, and Seasons), and the "foul dust which floated in the wake of Gatsby's dreams" (Dust and Ashes).

HW due Friday:
First vocabulary assignment.

HW due Wednesday, May 25
Outside Reading assignment.