Themes and Such 1/2/18

Today was a short day will a very short class time. Class lasted only for about twenty five minutes but managed to make the most out of it. We started off by moving all of our seats with the new chart River's made from the the surveys we took two weeks ago. We then went on with a little refresher on themes and topics, like what they are and what the difference is between the two. Rivers had us come up with some topics on our own, then he went over the last line of the Great Gatsby and told use to create a few themes about the last line using the topics we came up with. Other than that it was just a short day of discussion and some note taking here and there. What learning about themes and topics gives to us is the ability to come up with topics and themes of our own not just for what we read but we create, and knowing about themes helps to identify them in a text and to speculate the theme in a text. Now that we finished the Great Gatsby we can go back and all the messages and themes Fitzgerald tries to point out to his readers. Other than that if you were absent you didn't miss much just twenty five minutes of a refresher and a few lines of notes, and some new seats.