Writing Our Way to Complexity: April 20, 2018

Focus: How can we write our way to a better understanding of Fitzgerald's themes?

1. Warming up with a few reminders:

Start your document:

• Call it "Great Gatsby Official Timed Writing."

• Place it in your "Wealth and Power" or "Gatsby" folder (whatever you called it).

Three tiny reminders:

• Avoid "you" and "your." Try "we" and "our."

• Avoid stating "This quote..." Lead out with some literary lingo or a statement about the author's intent.
• Here's an example: Instead of saying, "This quote reveals that the speaker feels ambivalent," try saying, "The two roads symbolize the speaker's ambivalence," or the "Frost emphasizes the speaker's ambivalence."

• Show off your newly discovered close reading skills.

2. Composing your timed writing (55 minutes)

• Click here if you need an online version of the prompts and rubric.

3. Using the rubric to edit your essay if time allows

4. Submitting your essay to www.turnitin.com

HW:

1. If you had issues submitting your essay to www.turnitin.com, please take care of that tonight by midnight. If you need extra time to finish your essay, please take care of that BEFORE CLASS ON MONDAY; cap yourself at 30 minutes.

2. Make sure your Gatsby blogs are complete. We are starting a new unit next week.

3. Bring in your signed documentary contract by Tuesday, April 24 at the latest.

4. Complete your book club letter and have your book IN YOUR HANDS when you walk in on Wednesday, April 25.