Friday, June 17

Final examination, periods 3 & 4.

Thursday, June 16

Final Examination, Periods 1 and 2

Tuesday, June 14

Students were reminded to post their Outside Reading assignments to turnitin.com. Any assignments not submitted to turnitin by 11:59 pm today will not be accepted.

Class ID codes:
Per. 1: 3622528
Per. 2: 3622529
Per. 3: 3622531
Per. 4: 3622532
password: room301

We reviewed what will be on the final exam and reviewed passages from Gatsby with an eye to how they might be handled on the exam.

Final examination

Pers. 1 & 2: Thursday

Pers. 3 & 4: Friday
Bring motif booklets and The Great Gatsby.

Monday, June 13

Students were reminded to post their Outside Reading assignments to turnitin.com. Any assignments not submitted to turnitin by 11:59 pm Tuesday will not be accepted.

Also, remember to return all textbooks, outside reading books, and any other books checked out to you.

Students took a five-question quiz for extra credit over Chapters VIII and IX, after which we discussed Nick's final encounter with Tom Buchanan, examining the intersection of several strains of imagery (jewelry, careless driving, dust) and the resonance they give to Nick's final judgment on the Buchanans and their "rotten crowd."

HW due tomorrow:
Review -- at the least -- the final page of the novel and consider what it may have to say about "The American Dream."

Thursday/Friday
Final examination. Bring motif booklets and The Great Gatsby.

Friday, June 10

Students took a twenty question/twenty point quiz over vocabulary in the second half of The Great Gatsby.

Afterwards,we returned briefly to the novel (Chapters VII and VIII) and to our motif booklets.

Thursday, June 9
We read aloud from, and listened to a recording of, the second half of Chapter VII of The Great Gatsby.

HW due Friday:
Fourth and final vocabulary assignment.
Second and final vocabulary quiz.

HW due Monday:
Ninth and final chapter of Gatsby.

Final examination:
Periods 1 & 2 on Thursday, June 16
Periods 3 & 4 on Friday, June 17

Wednesday, June 8

Students supplied concrete details from The Great Gatsby, Chapter VII, after which we read from that chapter, focusing on the thematic significance of the summer heat and connecting it with other passages in the book (and in our booklets).

HW due Thursday:
Chapter VIII.

HW due Friday:
Fourth and final vocabulary assignment.
Second and final vocabulary quiz.

HW due Monday:
Ninth and final chapter.

Tuesday, June 7
We began by examining the Platonic ladder of love at the end of Chapter VI of Gatsby (with the aid of Obsession by Calvin Klein) and moved on to (back to) Gatsby's birth in his Platonic conception of himself at the beginning of the chapter. We considered the problematic relationship in the novel between the material and the real, between the dream and the dream's embodiment.

HW due Wednesday: Chapter VII

HW due Thursday: Chapter VIII

HW due Friday: Final (4th) Gatsby vocabulary assignment and final (2nd) vocab quiz.

Students must submit outside reading papers to turnitin.com
Class ID codes:
Per. 1: 3622528
Per. 2: 3622529
Per. 3: 3622531
Per. 4: 3622532
password: room301

Monday, June 6

Students submitted their third Gatsby vocabulary assignments and their outside reading papers.

We watched half an hour of a documentary about the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, then discussed connections between Fitzgerald's own story and the story of Nick, Daisy, Tom and Gatsby. Can we see aspects of Fitzgerald in both Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway?

In two sections we read the first page or two of Chapter VI.

HW due Tuesday:
Chapter VI

HW due Wednesday:
Chapter VII

HW due Thursday:
Chapter VIII

HW due Friday:
Final (4th) Gatsby vocabulary assignment and final (2nd) vocab quiz.

Students must submit outside reading papers to turnitin.com

Class ID codes:

Per. 1: 3622528

Per. 2: 3622529

Per. 3: 3622531

Per. 4: 3622532

password: room301

Friday, June 3

Last Blast -- no class.

HW due Monday:
Third Gatsby vocabulary assignment and
Outside Reading assignment

HW due Tuesday:
Read at least through Chapter VI of The Great Gatsby

Thursday, June 2

Students supplied CD's from Chapter V of The Great Gatsby, and we resumed reading the book, first finishing Chapter IV, then moving on to V, commenting as we read and adding images to the motif booklet.

HW due Monday:

Third Gatsby vocabulary assignment

Outside Reading assignment

Wednesday, June 1

After students recorded concrete details froom Chapter 4 of The Great Gatsby we resumed our reading of it.

HW due Thursday:
Read through Chapter 5 of Gatsby.