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MONDAY, 10-27-14
English III
10-27-14, MONDAY ENGLISH III
Bellringer – Composition Notebooks
Define “The American Dream”
What is it to you?
Does everyone have access to “The American Dream”?
Writing minimum: A paragraph = 5-7 complete sentences
COMMON CORE & TODAY’S OBJECTIVES
R.I.9 Craft and Structure: Analyze how an author draws on
experience and transforms material in a specific work (reflecting
a given time period, culture, society)
R.I.6 Craft and Structure: Determine an author’s point of view or
purpose in shaping a text and analyze how an author uses
rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
Objectives:
SWBAT: Identify several key facts/events from the biography of
author Fitzgerald’s life via PowerPoint
SWBAT: Describe some of the main elements that characterized
the “Roaring 1920s” era in U.S. History, including music, culture,
and societal values.
AGENDA
1. Bellringer
2. Announcements
Project reminder – Projects are due Wednesday. Make sure you make
proper arrangements with your groups
Benchmark
3. Begin Gatsby Unit
Introduction PowerPoint
Key Questions
Discussion of Daily Journal Grade and Setting Map Grade
4. Assessment reminder
Study SAT vocabulary
Wednesday task 2 project
Benchmark Practice
Benchmark Study Guide
FITZGERALD AND THE ROARING 20S
Switch PowerPoint
Key Questions
What was Fitzgerald’s young life like?
How might his youth have affected his later writing?
Who was Zelda Sayre? How did the author’s wife affect his life?
What was the 1920s decade like?
Why was the time called the “Roaring” 1920s?
Describe elements of the Jazz Age and relation to the “Lost
Generation.”
What is Modernism?
REVIEW OF TODAY’S OBJECTIVES
What are some of the key characteristics of the20s decade?
What did you think a “flapper” was? Has it changed?
How do you think Fitzgerald’s life shaped his writing?
Share some of your notes from the PowerPoint.
HW: Don’t forget that Task 2 of your project is due for presentation on Wednesday
Key Questions to be turned in to the bin