Reintroducing Ourselves to Gatsby: March 31, 2020

Focus: What are you wondering about in the early chapters of Gatsby?

1. Warming up:

Today, Sam rode a bike without training wheels for the first time. Because of his heart condition and his open-heart surgeries, he wasn't allowed anywhere near a bike for many summers of his life. But today, Sam rode a bike.

I think now is the time to do the thing you think you cannot do. Don't miss it.

3. Reading and journalling on The Great Gatsby, Chapter 3

• Click here if you need the journal overview (and click here if you just want the study guide questions).

• Click here to see the revised fishbowl sign up and expectations.

•  Mia and Olivia, please prepare a syllabus for Friday's discussion.

HW:

1. EVERY WEEKDAY: Check the class blog!

2. By FRIDAY:

• Read Chapter 3 in The Great Gatsby.

• Compose your journal entry and post it on your new blog.

• Please join our live discussion this Friday at 2:30; we will be discussing Chapter 3. Let me know if your work schedule interferes with this time. You will be receiving a Zoom invitation from me.

3. By next MONDAY, April 6:

• Watch my short screencast on Grammar You Must Know #9: Apostrophes.

• Take the quiz on Apostrophes (starting in a few days, I will link it to the daily blog).