Agenda January 7Agenda January 7JournalStamping Book Club/ Created Socratic

Seminar Questions/American Dream Symbol

Create a Socratic Seminar Question for Chapter 5 and 6

Micro Socratic SeminarsHW: Literary Analysis Chs 5-6 Due to

turnitin.com Friday. Final Magazine Due Friday

Grouping and TextsGrouping and TextsJoin the table that matches your

NUMBERThe Text choices are:

◦ Pgs 86-91◦ Pgs 92-96◦ Pgs 97-102◦ Pgs103-107◦ Pgs108-110◦ Pgs110-118

As a group choose 3 texts that you would like to discuss

Socratic Seminar QuestionSocratic Seminar QuestionAs 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 SeminarsMicro SeminarsJoin the group that corresponds

to the LETTER on your cardEach 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 5Agenda Period 5Soc. Sem. ReflectionVocab QuizAmerican Dream ArticlesHW: Literary Analysis Chs. 5-6

due to turnitin.com Friday. Final Magazine due Friday

Socratic Seminar Socratic Seminar ReflectionReflectionWhat 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 QuizVocab 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 ArticleAmerican Dream ArticleRead “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.

DiscussionDiscussion 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?