Monday, June 8, 2009
The Great Gatsby
I was blessed with an opportunity to teach American Lit. and Honors American Lit. at Grand Blanc High School for the past month. This experience taught me a lot about myself and my abilities as a teacher. I had so much fun with my students. The theme of this marking period is "The American Dream" as seen from different perspectives. The final piece of literature just happened to be The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald--a book I read on my own when I was about 15. I used to read books all the time in high school, which I enjoyed but never really looked at for meaning, foreshadowing, symbolism, etc. I really enjoyed it 7/8 years ago, but to teach it I reread it over the weekend then started it in class Monday morning...haha It was great. It is easily one of my favorite books, top ten material for sure. And my students were fantastic, and it was so much fun to think of things to discuss with them and different projects, assessments, games, etc. That's all I have time to briefly mention right now...wow, my life has been so crazy lately. I can't wait for summer to get started! haha ..that is all.
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Wow, how different we all are! You put Gatsby in the top ten, and i'd put it near the bottom of my lowest ten. I don't know what it is about that book, but I absolutely can't stand it. I really really didn't like reading it in high school and I picked it up again about a year or so ago, you know, just to "see what would happen" and I can honestly say Nothing happened. I still can't stand it.
Sure, I can appreciate the commentary that could be said about it, the rules that it questions in society, all that teacherish stuff to teach and so on.
I guess that's the difference between english majors who decide to teach and the ones who decide not to!
Cassandra
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