Monday, February 10, 2020

NOW IT'S A PARTY/ GATSBY CHAPTER 3!

The Reveal...

  • The two girls-(the yellow dress twins)→ rumors
  1.   Gatsby killed a man once(quite possibly during war)
  2.  German soldier during the war→ capable of committing a murder?, 
  • . Gatsby =mysterious -enjoys the casual and routine gossip about him being spread around but only the good gossip. 
  •  "stout, middle-aged man with owl-eyed spectacles.."=Man in library →Nick goes on to call the man a criminal because of the car incident. 
  •  Gatsby (Imagined)-"florid and corpulent person in his middle years"/a flushed-faced, big bellied old man 
  • JB is someone who instinctively avoids clever shrewd men, incredibly dishonest↪ She's fake to everyone in order to please others
  •  Nick's cardinal virtue: "I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known." 

Thursday, February 6, 2020

MY UN/FINISHED SYMPHONY!

In-completion...

Unfinished. Whenever I think of incomplete I think of a certain novel. It's ending almost killed me. Literally. I will never forget that book. I reread time ti time in hopes of fulfilling the hole I still feel. The book was called, The Giver. The author decided to end the plot on a cliff hanger. The last quote book still haunts me to this day. "But, perhaps it was only an echo". Lois Lowry is a brilliant writer. But, this book made me despise her from a young age. Now, my teacher id try to relive the tension my classmates and I felt after finished reading the book. She gave us an assignment to write a new ending for the novel. This is where my unfinished symphony began. I did in fact write a new ending. Then, another. And another. And so forth. Every year from that day forward I rewrite a new ending to that novel once or twice. It has become my task t find the "perfect" ending. Although, perfection is necessarily real. I feel that I will complete this symphony at some point. 

GATSBY: PAGES 38-48

On a Roll!

  • Kyke: racist slur usually appointed to Jews 
  • Nick's feeling of being an outsider (40)
  • Syntax 2 reveal Carraway's drunk nature (41)
  • T.B.→Hit Myrtle  
  • "Brook'n Bridge" (42)
  • (44) Diction revealing the alcoholism in the novel
  • Contemptuous: Harshly judgmental  

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

BQGSD!

Big Question Get Stuff Done!

1. Find more statistics on my topic

2. Interview at least three students 

3. Interview at least three teachers 


GATSBY: PAGES 27-35

Continuing on...

  • Transcendent: to go above and beyond 
  • Supercilious: behaving or looking as someone superior to others 
  • Contiguous: sharing a common border
  •  Eyes - symbolizing vision vision probably relates to the future or the unseen 
  • "His eyes were looked up to by everyone in the valley of ashes (the place is like a dump) like they were God The eyes see Tom's mistress (the other woman besides Daisy)"

Tuesday, February 4, 2020

GATSBY: PAGES 11-26

Meetings.

  • Tom Buchanan: Confident, Wealthy, Unfaithful 
  • Similes/Metaphors/Descriptive writing-PAGE 8
  • Daisy Buchanan: Charming , Self-Adsorbed, Spontaneous
  • "Miss" Jordan Baker: Mysterious, Intriguing, Vague 
  • Tom B. →Ignorant?
  • Tension at dinner- Series of calls interrupting dinner revealing Mr. Buchanan's affair w/ another woman in NY
  • "And I hope she'll be a fool-that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool", (17). -Daisy B. 
  • MR. GATSBY- reaching out to the single green light 
  • Magazine beautiful but up close their true ugliness appears
  •  No one is happy. 

Sunday, February 2, 2020

WHAT'S IN MY BIG QUESTION FOR ME!

Benefits?

In terms of my big question: why have we not modernized the school system...why are students under the obligation to study all subjects even if they are irrelevant to their desired profession and or interests? It is quite clear, that the question involves me a student. Now, what is in it for me is change. Maybe the change will  happen while, I am in high school. However, maybe change will come or the future students to come. I do not want the students of our future to face what current students are feeling and facing today. So, that is what is in for me. Change for the future to come