Agenda January 7 Journal Stamping Book Club/ Created Socratic Seminar Questions/American Dream Symbol Create a Socratic Seminar Question for Chapter 5 and 6 Micro Socratic Seminars HW: Literary Analysis Chs 5-6 Due to turnitin.com Friday. Final Magazine Due Friday

Grouping and Texts Join the table that matches your NUMBER The Text choices are: ◦ Pgs ◦ Pgs ◦ Pgs ◦ Pgs ◦ Pgs ◦ Pgs As a group choose 3 texts that you would like to discuss

Socratic Seminar Question As a Group Create the three different types of Socratic Seminar Questions for your text. Decide as a group which question to use in a micro seminar. Each person then needs to write that question on the paper provided so that it is large and legible.

Micro Seminars Join the group that corresponds to the LETTER on your card Each person will act as a leader and will guide the discussion that is generated by their question. ◦ Remember that a leaders role is to not only present the opening question but also to ask follow up questions based on the ensuing conversation.

Agenda Period 5 Soc. Sem. Reflection Vocab Quiz American Dream Articles HW: Literary Analysis Chs. 5-6 due to turnitin.com Friday. Final Magazine due Friday

Socratic Seminar Reflection What was it like to be the leader? What did you do well as the leader? What do you need to work on as the leader?

Vocab Quiz “ Now he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner” (11). “The only building in sight was a small block of yellow brick sitting on the edge of the waste land, a sort of Main Street ministering to it and contiguous to absolutely nothing” (28-29). “At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving form the tower of his raft or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam”(43). “Over the bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non- olfactory money” (73). “We both jumped up and, a little harrowed myself, I went out into the yard” (90).

American Dream Article Read “Gatsby's Green Light Beckons A New Generation of Strivers” In one page respond to the article ◦ For example what does the article make you think or feel? Do you agree or disagree with the ideas presented? Do you agree or disagree with the students or teachers? Does the article enhance your reading of Gatsby or change the way you think of things in the book? Etc.

Discussion Rejoin your Socratic Seminar Question making group. Each person read their response aloud. As a group discuss the article. As a group answer the questions: 1.How does Gatsby Represent the American Dream? 2.What does the novel have to say about the condition of the American dream in the 1920’s? 3.In ways do the themes of dreams, wealth and time relate to each other in the novels exploration of the idea of America?