Learning in the age of coronavirus

I feel like the school should act more towards our safety towards our health and make something like everyone has to use hand sanitizer and limit physical contact. Closing the school may seem like something everyone wants but it wouldn't be good. We wouldn't have help and someone to explain specifically what you need help on and even if they give out packets they won't help that much if you don't know what your doing.

Preview of Gatsby Essay

In the Great Gatsby the last lines of the book say "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." I think that this line embodies the thematic conflict that defines The Great Gatsby because its all about how Gatsby was trying to relive the past. This line makes the theme of the book clear and the message he is trying to give to the reader.

Cue Theme music

I think that the central message of The Great Gatsby is about how you shouldn't live in the past and can't regain something that is lost. I think that this is the central message because in the book it talks about how Gatsby just wants to get back his old love and does anything to get it, he eventually dies because of this. He was trying to make everything like it was in the past but he got nothing because you can't make someone love you or relive the past.

Whats so great about Gatsby

1. I think that Gatsby is a decent person because he did all of what he did for someone he loved and cared about. I also think that he is living in the past and that he needs to change and think more about himself and not just daisy first.
2. I think that nick is an honest person and I think that he shows is at the end of the book because he goes to Gatsby's funeral and tries to get some other people to go. I think that Nick hangs out with dishonest people because he might think that maybe they will change or maybe he just likes how they are. He respects them because he might think that they are good at what they are doing.
3. Fitzgerald describes Tom and Daisy as two characters that just protect and care about themselves and nobody else. I do agree because Tom tries to tell Nick that he wasn't the bad guy and just did it to save himself.
4. I don't understand Daisy's behavior because she was indecisive and just wanted to do things that made her happy and doesn't think about anyone else. I do not agree with what she is doing because she doesn't care what happens to anyone and what just cares about saving herself. She is not a girl that I would let my friend date because she would only want the best for her and not for both of them, she would only use his to get what she wants.
5. I think that last line of the book means that you shouldn't try and recreate the past or bring it back because you will lose like rowing against the current.

Gatsby chapter 9 thoughts and notes

Oh this chapter gatsby died and was killed by Wilson
While nick planned his funeral he called people to come to his funeral but nobody came
The only person that came was his dad

Gatsby notes and thoughts on chapter 8

Gatsby sayed at Daisy's house until 4 am
Nick tells Gatsby to leave and forget about daisy but Gatsby refuses
Daisy found another man which is Tom when Gatsby went to war
I think that Gatsby wants to swim in the pool because all he did and all he got was for daisy and he finally wants do something for himself
Wilson went go to kill Gatsby because he thinks that he kill his wife and nick hurries to go to Gatsby’s houses and finds that Gatsby is shit and Wilson killed himself

Gatsby Chapter 7

Gatsby stops having parties because he realizes that Daisy doesn't like them.
Gatsby fires his staff to stop the rumors spreading around of him and hires quiet people that stay in the shadows, relatives of Mr Wolfsheim
Daisy thinks that her daughter looks like her and not his dad. Gatsby thinks
Nobody wins because daisy says that he likes both of them.
Tom thinks that Gatsby killed daisy
Daisy is with Tom and is being like she doesn't like Gatsby

Notes on Gatsby chapter 6

Daisy finally goes to gatsbys party and she seems uncomfortable and wants to leave

Gatsby wants to relive the past and is disappointed that daisy didn’t like the party

What Gatsby Says to me

I think the centers message to me is maybe that people don’t seem to be what they look like. This could be the center al message but so far I don’t know what the center al message might be because it has been just a story told so far.

Notes and thought on Gatsby chapter 5

- The author uses rain to show how Gatsby is feeling when he is with daisy.
- The rain stops and Gatsby is a different man that isn't embarrassed
- Daisy is crying at the shirts but could be that she is sad thinking that she might never get anything like that

How you know what I know

This week I've been reading the great Gatsby and I could test my knowledge by testing myself with other people's question that they posted.

Questions

Chapter 1
Where did nick live?
Where did nick move to?
Chapter 2
Who is Tom?
What type of transportation did Nick and Tom use?
Chapter 3
Why did nick go to Gatsby’s house?
Where did Nick usually take dinner?
Chapter 4
What is gatsby's first name?
Who fixed the 1919 World Series?

chapter 4 notes

Gatsby went to the war and was a lieutenant.
Meyer Wolfsheim fixed the 1919 world series and is a gambler

Gatsby chapter 3 questions

1. He was a German spy, he killed a man
2. He is an old owled eyed man
3. He is imposing
4. He is dishonest
5. They are going on a boat
6. He is honest

My un/finished symphony

A goal that I have today is to try and use the best of myself to do good in school

Gatsby pp 38-49

-Tom broke Mrs. Wilson nose
-Mrs. McKee is racist
-Rumors about Gatsby that he was a Germany spy, he was in the war

Notes from today’s lecture

Today I looked at a video about Martin Luther king jr and his famous I have a dream speech. He was very formal and passionate in what he was saying. He liked like he cared about what he was saying and cared about there people he was talking to.

The world is my library

Novels
-to kill a mocking bird
-the lord of the rings
Short stories
-the tell tale heart
-the yellow wallpaper

HOPEPUNK

A sense of self-awareness about weaponizing kindness and optimism or even emotion itself in a face of that fight

I'm ignited

Favorite ignite talks:

Why do we have to fit in society?

Relation between consciousness and reality?

Can we send people to mars?

Last century's writing styles

Genre: any form or type of communication developed over time

Naturalism

-against natural forces

-something inevitable

Realism

-characters decisions affect his life

-real life problems

Modernism

-short story

-fragments of life

Argue this

Big question: What is the purpose of life?
what do we need to accomplish too feel like we have achieved the purpose of life?
Syllogism: Simplest form of logic
-Major premise
-Minor Premise
How to tell if its syllogism
Truth
-if its true (verifiable in the world)
Validity
-Do the premises support the conclusion.
Not syllogism:
Could have something that is valid and not true
Syllogism:
Need to have something valid and true
Deductive reasoning:
General to specific idea

American Literature

American Literature is something written or made in the U.S.. I can contribute to american literature by continue posting on my blog and sharing my writing with other people.