Goals for the Unit and the
Weekly Essential Questions
Unit Goals:
● Students will be able to analyze and create Modernist texts that
utilize new methods of authentic communication.
● Students will be able to analyze a text individually, in small
groups, and as a whole class.
Essential Question for the Week:
● How do you retain control and individuality in a world that tries
to make you all feel powerless?
● How can you avoid Jay Gatsby’s fate?
23 March 2015 To-Do List
PULL OUT your
alternative
reading
material. We will
begin with
Alternative
Reading Time.
●
Finish Group Selfie Activity for The Great
Gatsby
●
Begin sharing groups’ selfies up on the
SmartBoard.
○ Discuss the idea of unreliability in The
Great Gatsby.
Homework:
The Great Gatsby Group Selfie
Ex. Camera below the subject
The Great Gatsby Group Selfie
Ex. Camera above the subject
The Great Gatsby Group Selfie
Ex. Canted camera angle
The Great Gatsby Group Selfie
Ex. Layering using background
The Great Gatsby Group Selfie
● Each of your group members will portray one character
from this chapter in the group selfie:
○ Nick, Tom, Daisy, or Jordan
● Your group must select 4 quotes from Ch. 1 to support
how and where you posed each character in the group
selfie.
● Think about the angle of the pic and what that
suggests to the viewer too!
The Great Gatsby Group Selfie
● Turn in:
○ A texted picture of your group selfie to me at 770324-2295.
○ A Google Document for your group that explains:
■ EACH quote you selected (How did you
portray that quote in your pic?).
■ Why you shot the pic the way your group did
(angle, color, placement of characters, etc.).
○ Drop your group’s Google Document in the class
folder called “Group Selfies.”
24 March 2015 To-Do List
PULL OUT
your laptops
and log in to
Google Drive.
●
Finish working on Selfie activity in class -- All
components of the activity are due by FRIDAY!
●
ACT Newsflash: Go over the “Sentence
Topic/Comment” Practice Guide. Extend into
“Sentence Topic/Comment” Practice Guide #2.
Homework:
● Complete the “Sentence Topic/Comment” Practice
Guide #2. DUE THURSDAY!
●
Be working on your Ch. 2 Organizer for F.
Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby! DUE
THURSDAY!
25 March 2015 To-Do List -- 1st
Period
Take out a pen
or pencil and
prepare for a
quiz.
●
Quiz: Ch. 2 of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
●
ACT Newsflash Continued: Extend into “Sentence
Topic/Comment” Practice Guide #2.
●
Work on Ch. 2 Organizers for The Great Gatsby in
class!
Homework
●
Complete the “Sentence Topic/Comment” Practice
Guide #2. DUE TOMORROW!
●
Complete the Ch. 2 Organizer for The Great
Gatsby. I will be checking them BEFORE THE
DISCUSSION TOMORROW!
25 March 2015 To-Do List -- 2nd
Period
PULL OUT
your
alternative
reading
material. We
will begin with
Alternative
Reading Time.
●
ACT Newsflash Continued: Extend into “Sentence
Topic/Comment” Practice Guide #2.
●
Work on Ch. 2 Organizers for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The
Great Gatsby in class!
Homework
●
Complete the “Sentence Topic/Comment” Practice
Guide #2. DUE TOMORROW!
●
Complete the Ch. 2 Organizer for The Great
Gatsby. I will be checking them BEFORE THE
DISCUSSION TOMORROW!
26 March 2015 To-Do List
“Sentence
Topic/Comment”
Practice Guide #2
DUE TODAY!
Have the Practice
Guide #2 out on
your desk with
your alternative
reading material!
●
Go over guidelines for the “Perception and Reality”
research paper in this unit.
○ Review research methods for students.
○ Activity: Choose topics for paper.
Homework
●
Finish the “Research Interest Inventory” sheet and
brainstorm your topic!
○ Post your chosen topic to the “Topic” doc in
the class Google Drive folder!
○ If you are having trouble choosing a topic,
even with the “Research Interest Inventory,”
talk to me in class or EMAIL ME OVER
THE BREAK!
●
Begin researching your topic for the “Perception
and Reality” research paper!
27 March 2015 To-Do List
PULL OUT
your
alternative
reading
material. We
will begin with
Alternative
Reading Time.
●
Quick Topic Discussion
●
Compare and Contrast the Book and Film
○ The Great Gatsby (2013 film)
Homework
● Continue brainstorming your topic for the research
paper! YOU SHOULD HAVE A GOOD IDEA OF
THE TOPIC YOU WANT TO WRITE ABOUT
WHEN WE COME BACK!
○ If you know your topic, post it beside your
name on “Topics” sheet in the class folder!!
●
Begin researching your topic for your “Perception
and Reality” Paper. Be thinking about a
stance/thesis statement you want to take on your
topic.
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Ch. 3 OF THE GREAT GATSBY SHOULD BE
READ BY TUESDAY 4-6-15! KEEP THIS IN
MIND OVER THE BREAK!