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40 minute work day: finish book, study for essay test tomorrow, or finish project. Attached is a study guide that may be used on the essay test.
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Finishing The Great Gatsby and then working on our final project or test prep. Put in work these last few days. Test is Wednesday. Below is attached a study guide for the test that you may use on Wednesday if you fill it out.
Read chapter 7 independently.
UPDATE ON FINAL PROJECT: Students may either (1) Complete the final project listed in the earlier post by Tuesday at 3:15. Students who do this will not have to take part in the essay final. OR (2) Take part in an essay final on Wednesday. Read chapter 7, looking for moments of symmetry.
How symmetry appears in books: •Opposites (character) – e.g. Demetrius and Lysander, Tom and Gatsby •Scenes – similarly structured actions •Theme/motif – parties, cars Huck Finn Essay conferences.
Read chapter 6 of Great Gatsby in class. Ignore the Juxtaposition and Symmetry assignment from yesterday. Cool stuff if you want to check it out, but we just won't have the time to finish. Welcome back. This week we will be focusing on finishing The Great Gastby by Friday which will mean a majority of time spent reading. However, don't forget that your final projects are due next Wednesday and you will only have Monday and Tuesday in class to finish them. Today, we will bring up our final thought to help guide us through the rest of the novel: symmetry vs. juxtaposition. Using the file linked below, you will be asked to examine how Fitzgerald takes two ideas and simultaneously asks readers to compare how similar and how different those ideas are. Take a watch through the following two videos (language warning: the first video contains two f-bombs) to see the effect symmetry and juxtaposition have in film. Then, consider how these same principals affect literature and how they might influence readers and meaning.
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