Week 11: The End of Modernism (Filming & Exam Week)
Exam this Friday on Modernism, Gatsby, & Film Analysis! To help prepare, read over your Gatsby reading study guide, complete the exam...
Week 10 - Analyzing Directorial Emphasis in The Great Gatsby and Becoming Directors & Actors Our
Monday: We played Kahoot over chapters 7 and 8, and those of us who didn't read found out an ugly spoiler. Afterward, I read chapter 9...
Week 9: Comparative Film Study
So, this week flew by. Yikes. My blog post is totally tardy to the Gatsby party :/. Well, perhaps it's making a grand entrance. Monday:...
Week 8: Modernism in Film
Read through chapter 7 before next week!!! For this week: Monday: Journal about how the Simpsons Intro video reflects the Modernist theme...
Week 7 - Modernism is All the Rage
This week, we began talking Gatsby. Monday: Touchstone Assessment 1 & Get Gatsby books - Reading guide linked here Tuesday: Poem analyses:...
Week 6 - Transcendentalism in Pop Culture Project to End Into the Wild Unit
Your job this week is to complete your final Transcendentalism project by exploring how the concepts promoted by Transcendentalist...
Week 5 - Transcendentalists & Grammar Groupies
Monday: Discuss these notes on Transcendentalism. We set up three columns in our notebooks: one for Transcendental elements (from the...
Week 4 - Writing Better-er
We've all been in that ^ situation. Part of what we'll do in here is work toward learning how to make that situation happen less often....
Week 3 - Analyzing Transcendental Arguments & Laughing at Satirical Realism
Those cray cray Transcendentalists. Always trying to live differently and get back to nature and stuff. What are they thinking? Well,...
Week 2 - Blogging Right and Exploring the Crazy
We began this week discussing equality. Are "all men created equal"? In-class inssights included questions about the ways in which an...
