Jake, Reinvented HW

The following assignment is due tomorrow:

Jake, Reinvented
Read Chapter 2

Pg 20
Why do you think Jake wanted so desperately to be on the football team?

Pg 21
Jake’s car-
“A champagne colored BMW with a twenty-four karat shine whispered up to the curb in front of me. Soundlessly, the tinted window of the driver seat disappeared into the door. There at the wheel sat none other than Jake Garrett.”

Gatsby’s car-
“I’d seen it. Everybody had seen it. It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns. Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory we started to town.”

Explain the significance of the cars in each story. What do the represent? Explain how important it is to have a nice car in high school. What does a high school student gain by having a nice car?

Pg 25
What is the significance of the way the Throckmorton students act? How does this relate to The Great Gatsby? What is in the envelopes?

Pg 29
Explain who/what Mrs. Appleford represents from The Great Gatsby.

Jake, Reinvented HW

The following assignment is due Wednesday 3/26:

Jake, Reinvented-Chapter 1-20pts

Read chapter 1 and for each of the following characters you must write a comparison to one or more of the characters in The Great Gatsby. In your explanation you must provide specific evidence. This means a supporting quote.

Todd Buckley-




Nelson Jaworski-




Rick Paradis-




Jake Garrett-




Didi Ray-




Jennifer-




Melissa-

The Great Gatsby

We will be viewing the film version of The Great Gatsby over the next several days. As we view it, students are required to take notes on characters, themes, setting, motifs, etc and discuss. Once we finish the film, we will begin our next work which closely relates to The Great Gatsby.

Essay-50pts

The final draft of the Touching Spirit Bear essay is due Monday 3/10.

The rough draft of the essay we are working on should be completed . We will work on final revisions tomorrow in class. The final draft will be due Monday.

Touching Spirit Bear-Essay

We are currently working on our final essay for Touching Spirit Bear. The majority of the essay will be written in class, including revisions. At this point students should have the introduction and 2 body paragraphs written. This is a 50pt assignment.