Golden & Blue Bear Virtual Socratic Seminars

What is Gatsby’s DREAM? Is it too intense? Did he dream for too long? Why or why not? Is it realistic? How does the clock on the mantel symbolically connect to his dream? How do his shirts, his home, the green light, the stars, and the moon, symbolically connect? What interconnected metaphors exist to represent this dream? And finally, how is it related to the American Dream– what is Fitzgerald’s message here?

February 4, 2020

Community Art Showcase Research

January 24, 2020

Seedfolks

January 14, 2020

Use the following links to complete your graphic organizer.

December 3, 2019January 10, 2020

Please answer BOTH of the following questions: 1. Guilty or Not Guilty? What evidence from the film was the most compelling to support your answer? 2. What is the most significant “take away” about how to look at evidence in court? How difficult is it to prove a Guilty verdict? In other words, how do people use DOUBT?

November 4, 2019November 4, 2019

In her song, “Forgiveness,” Patti Griffin writes, “It’s hard to give, it’s hard to get, but everybody needs a little forgiveness.” Do you agree? Does EVERYBODY deserve forgiveness? Are certain deeds unforgivable? Use at least one example from the text to defend your answer.

October 29, 2019October 29, 2019

7th/8th Grade Independent Choice Book Review

June 11, 2019

6th Grade Independent Choice Book Review

June 11, 2019

Rising 6th Grade Summer Reading Prompt 2: If being a martyr is being a witness on “behalf of goodness and beauty and justice and God,” who would be such a martyr in the world as you know it, and why?

June 11, 2019

Rising 6th Grade Summer Reading Prompt 1: Consider the burning of the Jewish books. What is wrong with the burning of books, or the destruction of ideas, even the ideas you disagree with?

June 11, 2019