12/12/17

Today in class we walked in and Mr. Rivers wrote on the board to take out a pen or pencil and put everything else away including our laptops. Then he explained why we had to do that, which was because we were going to read passages from the Great Gatsby and then analysis things from the text on a big sheet of paper with our groups. He then told us to get our books out and we began to read. Mr.Rivers read about a page and then for a minute or two we independently wrote our thoughts on that passage. After that we went around the group to see what others wrote and we added onto their responses. Then we went back to our seat and discussed it out loud before picking someone to tell Mr.Rivers what our group thought was most interesting about the passage. We did this for about 3 passages and then time ran out.