1. Optional: Warming up with some optional vocabulary fun!
- Having trouble understanding what Fitzgerald is talking about? No problem! Let's get you a 1920s vocabulary, old sport.
- Click on this to join our Quizlet class: https://quizlet.com/join/bBFSDXaRS
- Practice the vocabulary lists for Gatsby, and I will happily give you credit in Infinite Campus! Plus, you'll have an easier time understanding The Great Gatsby!
2. Required: Reading and journalling on The Great Gatsby, Chapter 8; there's still much to come!
- Sam, Ethan, Pablo, and Abbie: Please prepare a Chapter 8 syllabus by Friday.
- Everyone: Make sure you post your Chapter 8 journal before class on Friday.
- Join us Friday at 2:30 for a live discussion of Chapter 8.
Weekly Tasks To Accomplish by Friday:
REQUIRED:
REQUIRED:
- Read Chapter 8 of The Great Gatsby.
- Post to your blog your journal on Chapter 8.
- Join our live discussion at 2:30 (click here if you need the updated Fishbowl Sign-up).
- All make-up / revised coursework due by Wednesday, May 22.
- Watch the screencasts on Grammar #9 and/or Grammar #10.
- Take the grammar quizzes.
- Try out the quarantine creative writings / mental health exercises posted on Tuesdays.
- Complete the 5-minute Wednesday Creative Write.
- Practice the Gatsby vocabulary words on Quizlet.
I think the pool may represent Gatsby's wealth and how far he has come but the pool was only for show at his parties. Since Daisy never came to his parties I think his death in the pool maybe symbolizing the inability to have Daisy since she didn't call.
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