MONDAY, 10-27-14
English III
10-27-14, MONDAY ENGLISH III
 Bellringer – Composition Notebooks
 Define “The American Dream”
 What is it to you?
 Does everyone have access to “The American Dream”?
 Writing minimum: A paragraph = 5-7 complete sentences
COMMON CORE & TODAY’S OBJECTIVES
 R.I.9 Craft and Structure: Analyze how an author draws on
experience and transforms material in a specific work (reflecting
a given time period, culture, society)
 R.I.6 Craft and Structure: Determine an author’s point of view or
purpose in shaping a text and analyze how an author uses
rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
 Objectives:
 SWBAT: Identify several key facts/events from the biography of
author Fitzgerald’s life via PowerPoint
 SWBAT: Describe some of the main elements that characterized
the “Roaring 1920s” era in U.S. History, including music, culture,
and societal values.
AGENDA
 1. Bellringer
 2. Announcements
 Project reminder – Projects are due Wednesday. Make sure you make
proper arrangements with your groups
 Benchmark
 3. Begin Gatsby Unit
 Introduction PowerPoint
 Key Questions
 Discussion of Daily Journal Grade and Setting Map Grade
 4. Assessment reminder
 Study SAT vocabulary
 Wednesday task 2 project
Benchmark Practice
Benchmark Study Guide
FITZGERALD AND THE ROARING 20S
 Switch PowerPoint
 Key Questions
 What was Fitzgerald’s young life like?
 How might his youth have affected his later writing?
 Who was Zelda Sayre? How did the author’s wife affect his life?
 What was the 1920s decade like?
 Why was the time called the “Roaring” 1920s?
 Describe elements of the Jazz Age and relation to the “Lost
Generation.”
 What is Modernism?
REVIEW OF TODAY’S OBJECTIVES
 What are some of the key characteristics of the20s decade?
 What did you think a “flapper” was? Has it changed?
 How do you think Fitzgerald’s life shaped his writing?
 Share some of your notes from the PowerPoint.
 HW: Don’t forget that Task 2 of your project is due for presentation on Wednesday
 Key Questions to be turned in to the bin