Focus: What do journalists want us to understand better or differently about America?
1. Warming up with an overview of our investigative journalism unit (see website for links to letter, book list, and bookmark)
2. Forming investigative journalism book clubs by selecting your groups and books; you must have at least FOUR people in your book club and no more than SIX (no exceptions to this rule this time)
3. Reading, conferencing, and journaling on the ending of The Great Gatsby; Chapter 9 leaders may use this time to prepare their syllabus.
HW:
1. For TOMORROW: Finish reading and journalling on The Great Gatsby. We will have an extended fishbowl discussion of both Chapters 8 and 9.
2. For MONDAY: Come to class prepared for your in-class writing; I recommend writing your thesis and having your quotations selected before class.
*Also, make sure your Gatsby journals are complete; I will be grading them while you write your essays.*
3. For WEDNESDAY: Complete your book club letter and have your book IN YOUR HANDS when you walk into class on Wednesday.
"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead,"
ReplyDeleteIs there a specific person that this advice is pointed to?