Week 7 Semester 2, Work Due February 21st

Reminder: If you are able to attend The Great Gatsby viewing party on Saturday, February 24th at 6:00 pm, please bring $4 next week to help cover pizza/refreshments. Dressing up is optional but fun. I saw some great 1920's style jewelry in the thrift store this week!  I will have directions/details for next class.

Weekly Usuals

A. Grammar Concept: Purpose and Audience

For grammar this week, we talked about keeping your purpose, audience, and medium in mind when communicating.  Please watch this brief video with email tips. 

B. Poetry wall theme of the week: ee cummings  (45 minutes)

EE Cummings 10:00

EE Cummings 12:15

C. Poetry Journal (30 minutes)

1.  Write a poem in the style of EE Cummings.  Then, visit this site and launch the visual poetry feature.  Paste your poem into the text box and play around with different ways you could make the poem a concrete/visual poem.  Do remember it needs to be readable.   Save the poem, print it and put it in your journal.

2. Take one of your previous poems that you'd like to experiment with/revise and use some of the other "Text Manipulation" options on the left side bar of this same website to give you new ideas of how you might rework, reorder, or reword the poem. You will need to poke through them--some are crazier than others, but you never know what might inspire you!  Revise your poem accordingly and include the revised version in your journal.

Other

Finish reading The Great Gatsby.

Everyone should think of one good Great Gatsby discussion question for next week's class.  Add it to this document.

For each of your categories (main character, minor character, symbol, theme, and background of era), write a well-developed paragraph summarizing your key findings from the novel.  Here are some brief questions to consider shaping each paragraph around:

1. In what ways does your character change during the course of the novel if any?  If he/she does not change, why do you think Fitzgerald chose that direction artistically?

2. Who is your minor character and how do they function in the novel?  Why is this person important enough to include?

3. How does your symbol function in the novel?  Give several examples.

4. How is your theme illustrated through the characters and events of the novel?  Give examples.

5. In what ways do you see your mini-research topic appear in the novel?

We will share some of these paragraphs next class.

Revise your mini-research paper according to the specifications we discussed in class.
Be sure to tally your grammar mistakes and analyze your sentence constructions, etc.

Here's the order for what you will turn in next week:

Staple the following together:
*Revised paragraphs
*Revised Works Cited
*Revised KWOS
*Editing Guide we went through in class

Then paperclip the rest of this behind the new:
*Original paragraphs
*Original Works Cited
*Original KWO

Feel free to email with questions that may arise, and I will do my best to help.   Note: on the right-hand sidebar under Helpful Resources, you will find a link to examples of the first page and works cites page of a MLA document.