Day 16 (8/23): Intro to The Great Gatsby

Warmup:

Common App Warm up #3

Standards:

ELAGSE11-12RL2 Determine two or more themes or central ideas of text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
ELAGSE11-12RL3 Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).

Essential Questions:

1. How can historical context help in understanding a text?
2. What critical lenses are available for textual interpretation?

Agenda:

• Vocab Quiz #2
• Intro to Gatsby
• As you watch the following videos, jot down details that you find interesting, startling, relevant, or worth paying attention to.

• Gatsby Historical Context Prezi
• Begin Reading Gatsby

Homework:

• Vocab Quiz #3 (Friday)
• They Say/I Say, Chapter 2
• Read by Wednesday (3+ takeaways)
• Answer Questions by Thursday
• Blog #1 Due 8/25
• Continue Reading Gatsby