The Great Gatsby Outer Circle Phishbowl

Outer Circle members, please post your ideas, connections, and observations to each phishbowl here. In order to receive full credit, you should post three times and use textual support. 
You should:
a. address questions asked by the leaders
b. respond to ideas brought up by discussers

You can: 
a. reconnect to focus questions
b. link back to previous discussions
c. share ideas from your own annotations, as they relate

Happy Blogging!

Hurston conversation

We'll have an online blog discussion over "How it Feels to be Colored Me" today.  In order to receive credit, you must post at least three times and link ideas to text.  You may do the following:
1. post a question
2. post a connection
3. post a favorite quote
4. respond to another's ideas
5. explain how she addresses our unit questions
6. discuss what she adds to the Harlem Renaissance

Happy bloggin!

"Civil Disobedience" discussion

How does this piece compare to/apply to Emerson's ideas in "Self Reliance"? 

Consider Thoreau's piece.  What resonates with you?  What discussion points do you have?  Which passages are most important and why?

How does this piece fit into the Transcendental movement?

Just a few questions, Sir...

Consider your annotations over Thomas Jefferson's "Query 17."  Please ONLY post questions here.  You may choose your best, or most important, or your most puzzling questions.  Please limit it to three questions.  Label your questions 1 (literal) 2 (interpretative), 3 (evaluative).  You may follow up someone else's question with a question.

Or is it Door #2?

As we've done in class this week, please use your reading strategies to draw conclusions about this image. 

1. Which part of the painting is your eye drawn to first? Why do you think this is?  Make specific observations.
2. As you let your eyes wander all over the painting (up to down, left to right, corner to corner), which details of the painting do you have questions about? In other words, if you could ask the artist one question about a specific detail in this painting, what would it be?  **Ask questions.
3. Let your mind attempt to draw together the details and make sense of the painting as a whole. What do you think this painting is trying to convey to us? Defend your thinking.  **Make inferences.**

4. What specific images, colors, or objects are important to your ideas above?  Why?  **Explain your reasoning. 

**After you've done your own thinking, please follow this link to develop your thinking skills and ideas about this painting.  Make notes in a Google doc.
DUE: Tuesday, 8/25 by 9:00 a.m. 

Share a book

At the end of class, please answer the following prompt: 

~The best book I ever read was... Then, explain what you now enjoy or used to enjoy about reading?  Why are certain books memorable to you?

Perhaps it's Door Number 1?

In class this week, we will discuss how to use small but significant clues to sneak your way into a painting. Please peruse the painting below and respond to the questions that follow it.

Important notes:

• Please do NOT Google this painting or use any other outside help; I only want to know what this class makes of the painting.  
• Also, be sure to read others' responses before you post your own and include whether you agree or disagree with some of their interpretations.

A FEW TIPS: Please read this painting by gathering as many "clues," or specific details as you can; try to find something that no one else in the class sees.  Then, try to piece them together to tell a larger story.  Make the story as complete as possible. 

YOUR TASK: In your blog, please describe which THREE clues, or details, were the most significant to this painting and why.  Then, tell us what you see as the larger picture.  Please remember to read others' posts before you create your own, and try to reference someone else's interpretation.

Please remember to proofread your answers carefully before posting.  Your response should reflect your professionalism.

DUE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19TH AT 9:00 A.M.