Welcome! I'm looking forward to meeting three times this week, including a Wednesday current event day that will incorporate rhetorical analysis, argument, and some new "synthesis" skills that we'll begin learning about on Monday. We will also continue to about the mysterious, elegant, and (at this point in the novel) elusive Jay Gatsby.
MONDAY: Journal warm-up. Notes: intro to synthesis-style papers/essays, read and discuss samples. Activity with Chapter 3 description of Gatsby party. Review Gatsby Character Song assignments and vote.
Due: Read Gatsby, Chapters 2 and 3.
Homework:For Wednesday, read and annotate articles about solutions for whether or not we should pay college athletes. Think about the complexities surrounding the situation and the issues that emerge after reading the evidence, examples, and perspectives in the articles, (for example the legal, financial, and moral issues, and issues about fairness to the players and to the other students at the university).
For Friday, please study Vocab #18 and read Chapter 4 of The Great Gatsby.
WEDNESDAY: Journal warm-up. Current event day with a March Madness theme: should college athletes be paid? Discuss how each writer crafted their arguments in the homework articles (mini-rhetorical analyses of each - and SOAPS). View short video debate. Think/Pair/Share Discussion. Group outlines for a synthesis-style response; share and evaluate, vote.
Due: Read and annotate articles about solutions for whether or not we should pay college athletes.
Homework: Read Chapter 4 for Friday. Study for Friday's quiz.
FRIDAY: Journal warm-up. Quiz covering vocab, grammar, Gatsby reading through Chapter 4. Continue Think/Pair/Share Discussion and create outlines for sample synthesis response.
Due: Read The Great Gatsby, Chapter 4.
Homework: Please read the rest of Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 of The Great Gatsby.
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