1. Goals for the Unit and the Weekly Essential Questions Unit Goals: ●Students will be able to analyze and create Modernist texts that utilize new methods of authentic communication. ●Students will be able to analyze a text individually, in small groups, and as a whole class. Essential Question for the Week: ●How do we retain control and individuality in a world that tries to make us all feel powerless? ●How can we avoid Jay Gatsby’s fate?

2. 9 March 2015 To-Do List FIRST, WRITE your email on the sign-up sheet for Google Drive at the front of the room as you come in! PULL OUT your alternative reading material. We will begin with Alternative Reading Time. ●Give out the ACT Scoring Guides ●Continue annotating T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” as a whole class ○Draw two of your five images; draw two images to represent your connection with that image as well ■4 IMAGES TOTAL! Homework: ●Closing: Journal Entry ○Write one paragraph to describe how you connect with your chosen images from “Prufrock.”

3. 10 March 2015 To-Do List First, we are getting copies of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby! PULL OUT your alternative reading material. We will begin with Alternative Reading Time. ●Finish creative imagery activity from yesterday! ○Pick 2 IMAGES that you personally connect with from Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” ○Draw a direct physical interpretation of each image. ○Draw a physical interpretation of your personal/outside connection to that image. ■Exs. nostalgia/childhood/memories; favorite book; embarrassing moments; etc. ○Discuss with your seat partners ○Discuss as a whole-class; vote! Homework

4. 11 March 2015 To-Do List PULL OUT your alternative reading material. We will begin with Alternative Reading Time. ●Whole-class discussion of T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” ○Listen to Brian Cox podcast ●Short Powerpoint on Annotating with Sticky Notes and the Chapter Planner -- Help with class discussion of The Great Gatsby ○Guide sheet for students goes with it! Homework

5. 12 March 2015 To-Do List PULL OUT your alternative reading material. We will begin with Alternative Reading Time. ●Finish personally analyzing T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” ●Introduction to Modernism and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby Powerpoint ●Closing: Begin reading the first chapter of the The Great Gatsby as a whole class ○Model how to sticky note Homework ●Read and sticky note annotate to pgs. 7-12 in The Great Gatsby ●Study for the Prufrock Quiz tomorrow! ○ Use your notes on Imagism ○ Your annotated copy of “Prufrock” ○ The Google Drive folder on “Prufrock”

6. 13 March 2015 To-Do List ●Take-Home Quiz Today: Imagism and T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ●Finish Intro to The Great Gatsby Powerpoint ●Whole-class reading of the first chapter of The Great Gatsby -- pgs. 7-17 ○The Buchanans ○Stop to model how to sticky note annotate Homework ● Finish reading and sticky note annotating Ch. 1 of The Great Gatsby PULL OUT your alternative reading material. We will begin with Alternative Reading Time.