All of today's activities will be done in our live class at 2:30! See you there!
1. Warming up with fishbowl expectations, reminders, and an exploration of the book's cover
2. Enjoying our live fishbowl discussion of The Great Gatsby
- Make sure you have posted your journal entries for Chapters 2 and 3 on your Gatsby blog.
- If you missed today's discussion, you need to make it up within 24 hours by posting your comments on today's class blog.
HW:
1. EVERY WEEKDAY: Check the class blog!
2. By NEXT FRIDAY:
3. OPTIONAL:
- Read Chapter 4 in The Great Gatsby.
- Compose your journal entry and post it on your new blog (make sure your Chapters 2 and 3 entries are posted as well).
- Please join our live discussion this Friday at 2:30; we will be discussing Chapter 4. Let me know if your work schedule interferes with this time. You should have received a Google Hangout invitation from me.
3. OPTIONAL:
- 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).
The most important conflict is the issues of affairs and trust within the relationships of the characters.
ReplyDeleteThe most important conflict in this book is Tom cheating on Daisy, it obviously causes tension and it leads to further plots.
ReplyDeleteThe most important conflict is the affair of Tom.
ReplyDeleteThe most important conflict so far is...
ReplyDeleteTo me the most important conflict is Tom and Myrtle
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ReplyDeleteI think the most important conflict is the lights against the dark sky.
ReplyDeleteThe most important conflict so far is that Gatsby is this very important yet mysterious man and we don't know what his true intentions with Nick are just yet.
ReplyDeleteIs Gatsby trying to exploit Nick in someway?
DeleteI think the most important conflict so far are the untrustworthy relationships people are having with each other
ReplyDeletethe most important conflict is toms affair
ReplyDeleteThe most important conflict so far seems to be in most of the relationships we have seen, and the amount of distrust and argument in them.
ReplyDeleteYea a big conflict is Tom's affair
ReplyDeleteI think the most important conflict so far in the book is between Nick and society, how he is going to be fitting in with others since he is from a different town. Another conflict would be how Jay Gatsby is effecting others and their perspective on life.
ReplyDeleteThe relationship between Tom and Daisy. Daisy knows ab the affair which cuases her unease with Tom.
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ReplyDeleteI think the most important conflict so far is the lies Tom is telling about his life. i.e: the affair, his wife is catholic
ReplyDeleteI believe the most important conflict is the Tom's affair with Myrtle
ReplyDeleteThe most important conflict so far is the relationship between Tom and Daisy. There is no trust in between the two of them.
ReplyDeleteTom and Daisy's affair is the biggest conflict so far, largely because his wife is Catholic.
ReplyDeleteWhy do most people never meet Gatsby? Why does the author create him to be such a mystery?
ReplyDeleteThis might be a symbolism of perception, Gatsby is shown to be a rich person who throws extravagant parties, people will go on to believe different story about how he came to be such a big person in New York. Other characters in this book may think that he can symbolise sort of a higher power.
Deletedo these people live life like with the same mentality as they have while driving, somewhat careless
ReplyDeleteI think that car crash in front of Gatsby's house is symbolic to the 20's and how people carelessly live and don't care much when it ends up in destruction
DeleteI agree with Amanda's comment, I think this is a way of showing how destructive people were in those days also maybe symbolizing the destruction of America in that time as well.
DeleteTo respond to Mia, I think it could be foreshadowing because they always talk about driving and people always drive fast.
ReplyDeleteI think the scene of the car crash is foreshadowing, or some sort of omen. There haven't been any major conflicts so far: everything's been going pretty well. The car crash scene also happens pretty close to the affair starting, as if everything's coming crashing down at once.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 3 you can see an interest forming between Jordan and Nick do you think she is connected to something, do you think that they will end up having a relationship?
ReplyDeleteI don't think they will end up having a relationship due their their social status. They live in a very different life.
DeleteI think it is possible for them to have a relationship and that they will end up together. They might face prejudice since she is much wealthier than him.
DeleteI think that there's something going on with Gatsby that he is very fake and trying to be something that he is not.
ReplyDeleteI agree on page 48 when Nick first met Gatsby he thought, "Some time before he introduced himself I'd got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care." Which implies he is trying to hide something.
DeleteTo respond to Colins comment I think people back then just weren't that good at driving and the cars weren't as safe.
ReplyDeleteIs gatsby trying to get closer to nick because of daisy
ReplyDeleteQuote: "I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited." Why do you think Gatsby invited Nick? I think Gatsby knows something about Nick.
ReplyDeleteI think that he is trying to get close to nick because of Daisy.
DeleteI think that Gatsby invited Nick becasue he wants a real friend and he noticed that Nick is not rich like all the people at the parties he hosts.
DeleteWhat does the color yellow symbolize? "Brisk yellow bug"(39), "yellow cocktail music"(40), and "yellow dresses"(42).
ReplyDeleteI think yellow might symbolizes social position like a higher standard for people, whenever the color yellow shows up its describing something wealthy or somebody wealthier than the common people.
Deletein chapter two does the way nick acted at the train station reveal anything about who nick is
ReplyDeleteWhy is Nick so fixated on Gatsby's smile? What's the significance behind his friendly presence?
ReplyDeleteTo respond to Jimmy, I think the color yellow can sometimes represent happiness but I don't know.
ReplyDelete"Instead of rambling, this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the countryside-East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety" (44). What does the author tried to convey from this sentence?
ReplyDeleteI think that the biggest conflict in the book at least for is trying to figure out who Gatsby really is? are all the rumours true? where'd all his money come from and what is he after?
ReplyDeleteWhy does Gatsby throw lavish parties when he doesn't even participate in them? What thrill does he get out of it?
ReplyDeleteI think the most important conflict is the hidden side of Gatsby. No one genuinely knows his background yet he seems to be the most talked about person in West/East Egg.
ReplyDeleteHow is there so much distrust between characters in this book? Tom is a cheater and everyone seems to backtalk each other. So far, What characters have been respectable?
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