MONDAY, MARCH 20
Last time:
 Journal Entry 3.20—TURNED IN JOURNAL
Miscellaneous: Finish Symbolism, Finish Motifs, Chapter 5-6 Dialectical
journal (modified), Film Comparison
•Turn in: Absent and Late work to your period’s drawer
•The American Dream Assignment
•Chapter 7 Audio Reading
•HW: Finish chapter 7, quiz next time
AMERICAN DREAM NOTES:
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American Dream Notes
DISCUSSION
Box #1
What is the American Dream?
DISCUSSION
Can money buy happiness?
Box #2
Box #3
INTRODUCTION TO THE AMERICAN DREAM
1. List every American image you see.
2. What is the artist saying about America or the American dream?
3. Who or what is the new America?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wouz4gZy_8
4. What is the American Dream? (list each interviewee’s definition)
5. What are the modern conflicts of achieving the American Dream?
The New York Times,
“Defining the American Dream”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C48aGtPIuZo
5. What will be the result of unequal opportunity?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYGc8-L_NmE
THE AMERICAN DREAM
1. Read the article individually (see link
on my website)
2. As a group, discuss and answer the
close reading questions. #1-4.
3. Watch the video “The High Price of
Materialism” and answer questions
#5 & 6.
4. The Great Gatsby connection: What is
each character’s American dream
and is he/she able to achieve it?
Explain.
See chart on the back of your assignment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGab38pKscw
Character’s Names
Nick Carraway
Tom Buchanan
Daisy Buchanan
Jay Gatsby
George Wilson
His/her American
Dream
Is he/she able to
achieve it?
Why or why not?
THE GREAT GATSBY
CHAPTER 7, PAGE 113