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(15 minutes)

Which of the topics brought up in yesterday's articles most concern you as a citizen?  Write about two of them, explaining in separate paragraphs of about 5 to 9 sentences each, 1) the problem as presented in the article, 2) why you personally are especially concerned about this topic, and 3) practically speaking, what we as individuals or a society should do to confront or correct these problems. Make sure to properly cite sources (using authors last names and/or the title of the piece underlined) and embed at least one short quote from the article(s) into the flow of your answer.

Discussion in small group

HW: Finish Book 1 for tomorrow (to page 104) and write one textually based  inferential discussion question based on content from either chapter 7 or 8.

1984 quiz on chapters 1-7: 20 question 40 point quiz; multiple choice questions about direct quotes from the text (who is being described, who is talking, who is talking to whom, etc.)


"He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was..." (Fitzgerald 110). 

This quote suggests that Gatsby lives for the past, or at least a romanticized version of it. As a part of that past, Daisy to has been romanticized, to the point where it seems that Gatsby is not actually in love with Daisy, but rather with the idea of her. To what extent do you think this is true?Going a step farther, on page 111, Daisy and Gatsby's first kiss is described as the completion of Gatsby's "incarnation." Keeping this in mind, does Gatsby love Daisy because she fits the part in the glamorous life he has envisioned for himself? 
Is Gatsby setting himself up to be disappointed, or will Daisy, as she truly is, be enough?