Nick Carraway

            My name is Nick Carraway. I was born in a big city. My family has been well-known there for seventy years. My father’s university was Yale at New Haven, and I went there, too. I graduated in 1915 and then went to fight in the Great War.

          When I came back from the war, life in the middle city was dull. I could not settle down. I decided another place and learn the bond business. My father agreed to pay my expenses for the first year. So, in 1922, I went to New York.

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Writing Strategies

Pre-Writing Strategies:

Ø  Activating prior knowledge

Ø  Analyzing the required task

Ø  Brainstorming

Ø  Freewriting

Ø  Mulling over ideas

Ø  Engaging in ideas with teachers or peers

Ø  Generating a purpose

Ø  Considering a form

Ø  Identifying an audience and its traits

Ø  Consulting resources

Ø  Gathering information

Ø  Outlining

Ø  Webbing

Ø  Clustering

Ø  Using graphic organizers

Ø  Rehearsing

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Reading Strategies

Pre-Reading Strategies:

•  Relating prior knowledge and personal experience to new texts
•  Freewriting about an important idea/theme/essential question in the work
• Webbing an important idea/theme/word (semantic mapping)
•  Completing an anticipation guide
• Discussing a related work, theme, idea
• Completing and discussing questionnaires in cooperative groups
•  Filling in the first two columns of a K-W-L chart
•  Assessing what the student already knows about the topic
•  Listing predictions
• Setting purposes for reading (perhaps with a mini-lesson introducing a new concept, term, or strategy)
•  Analyzing the title and/or illustrations
• Reviewing the footnotes, headings, and/or other peripherals
• Creating story impressions

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Media Technology Objectives

Each year, students will demonstrate their ability to meet at least three of the objectives listed below.

1. Students will be able to respond in discussions and in writing to a news report in the electronic or print media.
2. Students will be able to cite evidence of personal opinion or propaganda in articles which are presented as factual.
3. Students will be able to view and write a critical review of a television show.

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Speaking and Listening Objectives

Throughout their high school years, students will improve their ability to achieve all of the following objectives with increasing ease and sophistication.  In meeting the objectives listed below, students will use language appropriate for the classroom.

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