Newsletter - The Great Gatsby & A Separate Peace

We'll be in the Media Center on Nov. 1st and 2nd. 

This assignment will be graded as a Test Grade for the 1st Marking Period. 

It is due on Nov. 4th - no late newsletters will be accepted because the marking period ends on the 4th!


REQUIREMENTS

2 pages - printed in black & white, including the following:

• Title
• Volume
• Issue
• Date
• Special Points of Interest
• Inside this Issue (those are simply the titles of your articles)
• 3 or more articles (1 must be about the 1920's for The Great Gatsby OR 1940's for A Separate Peace and 2 about the novel)
• 3 pictures or clip art (1 must be a picture and have a caption underneath it)
• Your name should not appear on the front of the newsletter - write it on the back of both pages

The Great Gatsby - Ch. 2 Questions

1.  Describe the Valley of Ashes?  What does it symbolize?
2.  Does Tom try to keep his affair with Myrtle a secret?
3.  Nick goes with Tom to visit Myrtle.  Describe her and her husband, and what happens during the course of the evening?
4.  Explain the significance of the puppy episode.
5.  What gossip about Gatsby does Nick learn at the party?
6.  What shows Myrtle's lack of sophisitication?

Sites relevant to understanding A Separate Peace

The following websites provide information about topics related to the novel, A Separate Peace.

Devon School is modeled after Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.  This link takes you to the school's A Separate Peace home page.  http://www.exeter.edu/libraries/553_4390.aspx

This website includes an exhaustive day by day timeline, covering every event that occured during World War 2, by military theatre and in chronological order from 1939 to 1945.  http://www.worldwar-2.net/

American cultural history of the time is important in understanding the novel, as well, as can be found on this website.  http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade40.html

Parent Teacher Conference

Good evening,

Welcome to your son or daughter's English class! 

My e-mail address:  lomardeb@yahoo.com

This blog can provide you with details of the works your child is studying at the time and information about some homework projects, upcoming tests, etc.

Thank you for coming.  Have a wonderful night!

Transcendetalism Quotes - Test Review

Who said it – Emerson or Thoreau?

What work is it found in & what does it mean?

1.  "To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society."
2.  "To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature."
3.  “It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.”
4.   “Nature never wears a mean appearance.”
5.  “Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide."
6.  “The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.”
7.  “Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”
8.  “What I must do is what concerns me, not what the people think.
9.   “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, - that is genius.”
10.  “We should be men first, and subjects afterward.”
11.  “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”
12.  “Trust thyself:  every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
13.  “That government is best which governs not at all.”
14.  "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
15.  “Our life is frittered away be details.”

Haiku - Poetry Contest

What adventures does your future hold?  Tell Dell about it!  Here's a fun haiku-writing contest with prizes from Dell!

This contest is open to students in grades 7–12 (who are 13 or over) and it’s easy to enter! Here’s all they have to do:

1. Write an original haiku in an unrhyming, 5-7-5 style that answers the question: What adventures does your future hold?
2. Submit your haiku at http://www.scholastic.com/dellhaiku. Deadline: 11/18/11.
3. Check back in December 2011 to see the winning haiku!

Transcendentalism – a philosophical movement that occurred in the middle of the 19^th century (the 1800s) which influenced a great deal of writing of that time period.

Characteristics of Transcendentalism

·       Simplicity of life

·       A need to live in solitude

·       A lack of necessity of material items

·       A need to follow your own rules

·       More focus on the inner self

·       Relying solely on yourself and having the ability to think for   yourself

·       Breaking free from conformity

·       A strong sense of nature