12/13/17

Today in class, we had a recap on what we did yesterday. To sum up yesterday, we read three passages from chapter 6 of The Great Gatsby together as a class and jot down some notes on what we noticed and what stood out to us. Today in class, we summed up all the notes we took together as a class on each passage. For example, the class talked about how Gatsby felt about his real family(that he was ashamed and embarrassed by them), and also different theories as to why Dan Cody took the young Jay Gatsby under his wing and what that could mean. After we finished our discussion on the three different passages from chapter 6, Mr. River's had our groups choose four topics from all the passages combined. These topics could be as simple as just one word or it could be an entire sentence. For example my group's topics were originally; wealth, lying, Daisy, and Cody. We then later turned the into whole sentences like for example; Wealth and how Gatsby earned it. After we wrote down our four topics, we took any two topics and put them together to make a claim. After we wrote down our own topics and claims, we had to write down different topics and claims on other groups' papers that were not already taken yet.

In class, we learned how to take out singular topics as a sum up from our notes that we took on each passage. We were then able to write more complex topics out of just one word that stood out to us. Then, we were able to make claims by putting not jut one, but two different ideas together. We were able to continue doing this until there were no topics left to discuss.