Day 10!

Happy Friday!

We will continue reading Chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby today!

Day 9!

Thursday! The week is slowly passing!

We will finish up with our group presentations today. THEN, the main event will begin. We get to start reading The Great Gatsby!

Day 8!

Wednesday!

You will have some more time to work with your groups today, and then we will present!

Day 7!

Tuesday! 

We will pick up where we left off yesterday with some biographical information about F. Scott Fitzgerald. We will finish listening to the audio portion and then you will get some time to work with your partner on your article! 

Day 6!

MONDAY!

We'll finish up looking at our Langston Hughes poems this morning.

Once we finish up with that, we will move on to another aspect of the Roaring Twenties- The Great Gatsby. We will listen to an audio cast about Gatsby's author, F. Scott Fitzgerald.  Fitzgerald Bio Audio Transcript.

Then, we will do some additional biographical work in groups!

Day 5!

Friday!

Today, we will take some time to talk about the poems you analyzed yesterday! We will share them on the board and discuss what you found in each.

What emotions are present in the poem?
What point of view is this told from?
What is the overall message?

After we've looked at several of the poems, we will compare/ contrast the themes. What ideas reoccur?

Now when you picture the 1920s, what do you see?

Day 4!

GOOD MORNING THURSDAY!

You will get to read some poetry today! Check out this website to select any two Langston Hughes poems. Use the TWIST method of analyzation to determine the theme and message of your poems!

TWIST Method of Poetry Analysis

T= Title: Read the title and stop. Predict what the poem will be about.  Consider connotations of the wording.

W=What is it about?  Paraphrase each LINE of the poem. Don’t interpret it, just tell it in your own words.

I= Imagery: Look for any imagery (description that makes it so real you can imagine it with any of your five senses), symbolism, metaphors, similes, personification, irony, understatement, allusions, alliteration, onomatopoeia, assonance, rhythm (write out the meter pattern), rhyme scheme, tone and the tone shift, poet’s attitude toward the subject, etc.

S=  Structure: Look for the tone shift, punctuation used, stanza division, changes in stanza or line length, layout of poem, or capitalized words. Discuss how these elements relate to the meaning of the poem.

T= Theme: Look at the title again from an interpretive level.  Do you see anything new? What is the subject of the poem? Then determine what the poet is saying about each of the subjects which is your theme.