Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Week 30, Day 3
Objective: recognize distinctive and shared characteristics of cultures through reading; understand cultural background to literary texts, grade level vocabulary, and listening for understanding.

1. Finish reading Chapter 3 of The Great Gatsby as a class.  
1. Take notes as you read.
2. Chapter 3 Quiz will be tomorrow.   
2. If you need help remembering my my expectations for reading and the quizzes for The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, see the blog post from Thursday, April 2, 2015.
3. Watch first 3 chapters of the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby
1. There are differences between the movie and the book.  Note these differences.
2. The movie takes the first three chapters a little out of order.  
3. Your quiz tomorrow is over the book, not the movie.  Don't get them confused!
4. Reminders:
1. Next week's SAT Quiz will be over Week 21-25 words.  
2. Work on Free Rice...this is the only way you will be able to have a daily and quiz grade dropped. Dropped daily and test grade=25,000 grains in my group.  Dropped daily grade=10,000 grains in my group.  DEADLINE: THURSDAY, APRIL 16TH AT MIDNIGHT.