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Friday, Oct 31

10/31/2025

 
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DO NOW
  • ​​Daily Check in
Learning Intentions
  • Essay Drafting
​AGENDA
  • Routine Writing - Week 8
  • DRAFT! Goal is to FINISH draft today. 

Thursday, Oct 30

10/29/2025

 
DO NOW
  • ​​Daily Check in
Learning Intentions
  • Essay Drafting
​AGENDA
  • DRAFT!

Wednesday, Oct 29

10/28/2025

 
DO NOW
  • ​​Daily Check in
Learning Intentions
  • Essay Drafting
​AGENDA
  • Example Essay and slideshows on Google Classroom
  • Essay intros and drafting

Tuesday, Oct 28

10/27/2025

 
DO NOW
  • ​​Daily Check in
Learning Intentions
  • Essay Planing
​AGENDA
  • Desks
  • Cell Phones
  • Gatsby Books
  • Essay thesis, intros, and planning (Graphic Organizer passed out in class)​

Monday, Oct 27

10/27/2025

 
DO NOW
  • ​​Daily Check in
Learning Intentions
  • Routine Writing
​AGENDA
  • Gastby Review Stations
    • Discussion with Mr. Restad
    • Gatsby Timeline
    • Theme Review
    • Novel Review

Friday, Oct 24

10/24/2025

 
DO NOW
  • ​​Daily Check in
Learning Intentions
  • Routine Writing
​AGENDA
  • Routine Writing - Week 7
  • Movie Day! Finish the Great Gatsby.
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Thursday, Oct 23

10/23/2025

 
DO NOW
  • ​​Daily Check in
Learning Intentions
  • Analysis: I can examine a text to understand its deeper meanings, themes, and the author's intentions by breaking down its components.
AGENDA
  • Read “Why Every American Should Read The Great Gatsby, Again.” 
  • There are 2 documents you can work on today, both posted in Google Classroom intended to help them prepare for their literary analysis essay and a short final assessment we’ll take on Monday over the book.
    o Gatsby Theme Reflection
    o Gatsby Novel Review
  • OR you can finish any reading or outstanding practice assignments from the novel

Wednesday, Oct 22

10/22/2025

 
DO NOW
  • ​​Daily Check in
Learning Intentions
  • Analysis: I can examine a text to understand its deeper meanings, themes, and the author's intentions by breaking down its components.
AGENDA
  • Read chapter 9 (audiobook)
  • Chapter 9 - Reflection​

Tuesday, Oct 21

10/21/2025

 
DO NOW
  • ​​Daily Check in
Learning Intentions
  • I can support a complex inference with properly introduced textual evidence and provide valid reasoning
AGENDA
  • Review Chapter 7 practice
  • Review chapter 8 (audiobook)
  • chapter 8 practice
  • If you're done, start working on the Gatsby theme reflection in Google Classroom

Monday, Oct 20

10/18/2025

 
DO NOW
  • ​​Daily Check in
Learning Intentions
  • I can support a complex inference with properly introduced textual evidence and provide valid reasoning
AGENDA
  • Finish Chapter 7 practice
  • Read chapter 8 (audiobook)
  • chapter 8 practice
  • Theme Development tracker (in Google Classroom)

Wednesday, Oct 15

10/15/2025

 
DO NOW
  • ​​Daily Check in
  • Pictures
Learning Intentions
  • I can support a complex inference with properly introduced textual evidence and provide valid reasoning
AGENDA
  • Finish chapter Chapter 7
  • Grade Checks
  • Introducing Evidence (slides)
  • Chapter 7 practice (in Google Classroom)

Tuesday, Oct 14

10/14/2025

 
DO NOW
  • ​​Daily Check in
    • ​1. What character is introduced that surprises Gatsby?
      2. What does Tom insist on doing at this very moment? What is Daisy’s reaction?3. What realization does Tom make at the gas station.
      4. Describe the relationship between Tom, Daisy and Gatsby?  
      5. What does Tom antagonize Gatsby about?
      6. What does Gatsby tell Tom? Is this a good idea?
      7. What does Daisy say about Tom? What does Daisy reveal to Tom?
Learning Intentions
  • I can support my analysis of a text with strong and thorough, explicit evidence and reasoning.
AGENDA
  • Review Chapter 6 Assessment
  • Finish chapter Chapter 7
  • AS WE READ: Every character faces a moral test in Chapter 7. Choose one moment where a character makes a questionable choice (Tom’s cruelty, Daisy’s decision, Gatsby’s obsession) which increases the tension of the story. Plot the tension on a graph and label each rise or fall with a page number and brief description.
  • Then for two critical moments, you are to explain:
    • What you think motivated their action
    • Whether you think it was right or wrong
    • What this reveals about Fitzgerald’s view of love or morality

Monday, Oct 13

10/13/2025

 
DO NOW
  • ​​Daily Check in
Learning Intentions
  • I can support my analysis of a text with strong and thorough, explicit evidence and reasoning.
AGENDA
  • Begin Chapter 7
  • AS WE READ: Every character faces a moral test in Chapter 7. Choose one moment where a character makes a questionable choice (Tom’s cruelty, Daisy’s decision, Gatsby’s obsession) which increases the tension of the story. Plot the tension on a graph and label each rise or fall with a page number and brief description.
  • Then for two critical moments, you are to explain:
    • What you think motivated their action
    • Whether you think it was right or wrong
    • What this reveals about Fitzgerald’s view of love or morality

  • Comprehension questions (take notes on these or make sure you can answer them.)
    • 1. What character is introduced that surprises Gatsby?
    • 2. What does Tom insist on doing at this very moment? What is Daisy’s reaction?
    • 3. What realization does Tom make at the gas station.
    • 4. Describe the relationship between Tom, Daisy and Gatsby?  
    • 5. What does Tom antagonize Gatsby about?
    • 6. What does Gatsby tell Tom? Is this a good idea?
    • 7. What does Daisy say about Tom? What does Daisy reveal to Tom?
    • 8. Presumably, who hits Myrtle? How does the audience know?
    • 9. How does Nick feel towards the group? Surprisingly, who does he include?
    • 10. What does Gatsby reveal about the accident?
    • 11. How does Nick view Daisy and Tom’s relationship?
    • 12. Who is Gatsby watching? Why does Nick refer to it as “nothing”? 

Friday, Oct 10

10/10/2025

 
AGENDA
  • ​Mental Health Day.
    • Read a book
      Do art
      Catch up on homework
      Study
      Meditate
      Journaling
    • Music - YES, Phone - NO
      • Lo-fi beats
      • Chillhop Essentials - I feel dumber just writing the word "chillhop" but it's pretty good stuff.
      • Bill Evans - Jazz
      • Miles Davis - Jazz
      • Gonzales - Piano
      • Brahams - Classical
      • Studio Ghibli - piano soundtracks
      • 8 Best of Debussey - Classical Piano
    • NO SCREENS (unless specifically working on homework or meditating)!

Thursday, Oct 9

10/9/2025

 
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DO NOW
  • ​​Daily Check in
Learning Intentions
  • I can break down and analyze a text
  • I can make complex inferences
  • I can can find strong, direct textual evidence to support my analysis
​AGENDA
  • Routine Writing - Week 6
  • Finish Chapter 6 assessment, if you need.
  • Movie Day!​
  • Tomorrow - Mental Health Day
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  • Classroom Blog
  • Eng III
    • Open Discolsure
    • 1 Literary Analysis
    • 2 Textual Development
    • 3 Language and Meaning
    • 4 Grammar and Punctuation
    • 5 Argumentative Writing
  • Journalism
    • Newspaper >
      • Blogging about news
      • Senior Podcast Project
      • Person Profile Article
      • Classroom Spotlight
      • In-Depth Journalism
      • Event Journalism
      • Gardiner Special
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      • Yearbook Open Disclosure
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