Learning Target:  I can use The Great Gatsby to reflect on my world.

Activities: 
Hand in paper proposal
Watch Gatsby

Homework: Instead of a draft, please expand on what you typed yesterday.  Answer the following questions in two pages:
     1) What idea/topic addressed in Gatsby are you planning to focus on?  
     2) Controlling idea/central question/point of view...What is your controlling idea, central question, point of view for the paper.  What do you think you want to say or figure out about your topic?  
     3). What outside connections - outside the novel, that is - might inform your ideas on your topic? Books, school, family, relationships, friends, movies, classes, etc? Get specific.  Explore places outside the novel which contribute to your views on the topic.
     4) What does Fitzgerald have to say about the topic ( based on your reading of Gatsby).  Try to find three to four quotes/passages which suggest Fitzgerald's POV on the topic. 




First typed draft of paper due at the end of class on Friday, Feb 13.  Second draft of paper due on Tuesday, Feb 17.