Today in class, Mr. Rivers asked us the following questions: "what do we learn about Gatsby." He also asked us what the difference is between perception and binary. We explained that perception is how something is viewed using our 5 senses (taste, smell, hear, see and touch), and binary is how something is viewed in the grey area. Mr. Rivers allowed us to discuss this question with our table. We came up with a list of 7 different items that we learned throughout chapter 3. We learned that Gatsby is super wealthy, and lives on West Egg, the town that is comprised of "new money." Gatsby hosts huge parties almost every weekend, but he doesn't partake in any of the drinking. He tends to stay to himself at his parties, often sitting in the corner and observing his peers. We learned that he is a World War 1 veteran, and mysteriously knows Nick. The final two ideas that we learned are that he is professionally important to society, and that there are a lot of rumors surrounding Gatsby's past. After our discussion, we changed topics into learning about how to be clear and specific in introducing quotes. Mr. Rivers showed us a quote that was clear, but not specific. The next quote displayed was specific, but not clear. The next slide had a quote spanning 7 lines of text, creating a massive run-on sentence, which made it uninteresting and difficult to understand. The final part of English class today contained Mr. Rivers instructing us to write a paragraph about the new things that we learned about Gatsby, and introduce and cite quotes to strengthen our arguments. At the end of class, Mr. Rivers reminded us to have chapter 4 read by Thursday, December 8th. The, the bell rang and class was over.
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