Last Blog of the Year!

My favorite topic was the topic of what we like today and what type of things we think are good.
My least favorite topic was Harlem. I did not like it because I found it very long and confusing.
I think I put a lot of effort into my blogs. I put more effort into the ones I thought were interesting rather than the ones that I did not like so much and you can tell which ones I liked by how much I wrote about them. I definitely wrote the minimum for the blogs that I did not like.
I think overall the blogs were a good experience and way to learn about the topics being discussed in class. I also enjoyed very much that the blogs did not have a specific due date so I could do them when I had the time since the life of a high schooler is already so busy.
I have learned about each individual topic that we had to write about such as Native Americans, African American slaves and many other topics.
My top three stories that we have read this year:
1) The Pit and the Pendelum
2) The Fall of the House of Usher
3) The Notorious Jumping Frog

Advice

Advice to Miss Wolff:   
     1) Allowing the students to be creative and actually do activities such as the graffiti board rather than regularly discussing stories, books, and poems has been a nice change of pace and was very helpful. Take notes on Ms. Williams teaching style!
     2) Watching movies that relate to the topics of discussion in class really help the students to understand the time period in which the story was held.

The Great Gatsby Music

I believe that the song "Blue Skies" by Irving Berlin relates to The Great Gatsby because it talks about a man that is so in love with a woman, but they are seperated, like Gatsby and Daisy were in their lives after Louisville. Gatsby was consumed by missing Daisy and he could "never get used to it".

"The Best Things In Life Are Free" by The Ink Spots goes along with the events in our book because even though Gatsby had all of the money he could have ever wanted, he was still unhappy because he did not have the love or Daisy.