february 13

[For your MOM: What does it mean to be "your own best friend"?  How can you be kind to yourself? Where does exercise, nutrition, rest, and mindfulness fit into this?]

JOURNAL TOPIC: [today's tunes: "Money" by Pink Floyd; "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits]

Do you think money changes people?  Are people who are born into money different than people who aren't?  Are their lives really that different?  Why are we so curious about the extremes (like people who are super-rich or super-poor, for example)?  Is this why F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby instead of A Regular Gary?

-OR-

Now that we know Gatsby and Daisy were "a thing" back in the day, before he became great and she became Mrs. Tom Buchanan, make a prediction about where you think things are going to go from here.

AGENDA:
[MOM]
1. Journal
2. Finish reading Chapter 4
3. Choose three people and give them your test.  Walk up to them, have them find your blog post with your eight questions, and sit with them while they answer your questions online in a comment to your blog.  We will set this up in class together; I'm posting the general idea so that if anyone is not in class today, you can message three friends and have them do this today, so that you will not fall behind tomorrow.

POST:
1. Chapter 4 notes -- if you haven't already (title: GATSBY CHAPTER 4 NOTES)
2. Your test results.  Describe the process of selecting questions: how did the questions you chose reflect what you think is important to understand about the book?  Also describe what people got right and wrong, and how the conversations you had about this indicated whether they understand the book. (title: TESTING UNDERSTANDING FROM THE OTHER SIDE)